distrust

How To Use distrust In A Sentence

• 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.
• Some of his best mates are journalists, but generally he is sceptical and distrustful of the media and never saw his role as a background briefer to reporters.
• He's torn between his distrust and dislike of the press and his need to galvanise voters. Times, Sunday Times
• Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
• The reference here to distrust of the judiciary once again accentuates Dicey's adoption of the ancient conception of the rule of law.
• He replied by the term invariably used by the Spaniards when they see doubt or distrust exhibited. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
• It was also the introduction of distrust, a sentiment that had only before been embraced by radicals and beatniks, and the realization that all was not well.
• Their fantasy of Englishness did not include the literary Bengali babu, for whom they felt contempt and distrust.
• Glass touched his lips, and Giles drew back, distrusting it.