Distrusted
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Distrusted is an adjective meaning Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
Meaning
Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of distrust
Example Sentences
The most distrusted organizations are those that appear inauthentic.
I examine some famous environmental 'disasters', a very distrusted chemical (chlorine), and some favourite environmental panaceas.
There is, as a matter of fact, a movement toward the scientific idea of knowledge in all this that slowly begins to eclipse the confidence in the integrated "judgment of sense" of the human being; where feelings and emotive powers become more and more distrusted by Catholic philosophers and theologians, as the Protestants begin to enshrine the subjective response to religion.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mistrust, distrustfulness, suspicion, suspect, doubt, misgiving.
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