Definition of Mistrust

Mistrust

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.

To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.

To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.

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Mistrust Quotations

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Barack Obama

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Daniel Webster

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Sophocles

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
Jasmine Guy

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Hugh Mackay

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
William Collins

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
Gamal Abdel Nasser

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
William Watson

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.
Steve Mitchell

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
Lilli Palmer

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Mistrust Translations

mistrust in Italian is diffidenza
mistrust in Spanish is desconfiar, escepticismo

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