distrust vs mistrust
Definitions
verb
- regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
noun
- doubt about someone's honesty
- the trait of not trusting others
Examples
There were heavily armed security forces on every street corner and there was a great deal of distrust and suspicion.
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
Oddly, we have reached the stage where there might still be a singular vision, but too often it is being micro-managed at executive level to the point of blandness and is often hobbled by an unhealthy mix at executive-committee stage of half-understood notions of political correctness tied to an essential distrust of viewers 'intelligence.
Definitions
verb
- regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
noun
- doubt about someone's honesty
- the trait of not trusting others
Examples
He had a deep mistrust of the legal profession.
However, the measure intended to foster democracy will result in all three party leaders imposing a three-line whip on their respective MPs – a move hardly likely to ease the public's mistrust of Parliament.
All this mysticism promoted a general mistrust of alchemists.
