How To Use Trustworthy In A Sentence

  • But recently, he publicly crossed swords with Soi Lek, whom he described as untrustworthy and treacherous compared to former MCA president Ong Tee Keat. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • Do you think that the barons thought the king was trustworthy? Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • They have proved themselves untrustworthy, at least in so far as we can take it on faith that they know what they are doing.
  • What a pity it is also the most corrupt, incompetent and untrustworthy.
  • No respect for the rule of law, utter narcissism, absolutely untrustworthy to anyone close to them who trusts them (the Clinton/Edwards tradition), unlimited ability to pursue public policies leading to disaster if it provides the ability to pander to their ultra-left donors - all wrapped around with endless self righteousness. Spitzer considering Senate run? …No, really? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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  • By being honest and trustworthy, you are marketing yourself to prospective customers.
  • We are instructed to be trustworthy stewards of the goods that have been placed in our care. Times, Sunday Times
  • Feeling that your company is trustworthy and dependable is an important part of motivation. Times, Sunday Times
  • What they found consistently was that people in the afternoon were less trustworthy than in the morning. Times, Sunday Times
  • Business is based on trust and used to be based on personal relationships between trustworthy merchants. Computing
  • So what is to stop untrustworthy people in football from behaving in a similarly reprehensible manner and taking our game to the brink of no return? The Sun
  • You become more honest, more trustworthy, wiser and more loving. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Scout Law declares a Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
  • You're honest, reliable, trustworthy, intelligent, and very handsome as well.
  • It was only his imagination, fallible and untrustworthy, that had caused his anxiety. DANSVILLE
  • Hiring a trustworthy realtor can alleviate some of the stresses associated with long distance selling or renting.
  • Trust is in truth unlikely to be restored for so long as politicians try and prove that one side is more honest and trustworthy than the other.
  • Some 40 per cent have concluded that she is neither honest nor trustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • ORANGE residents will head to the polls today to protest against a council they describe as untrustworthy, unreliable and out of touch with the needs of the average person in the street, according to local polling data obtained by the Central Western Daily. Central Western Daily
  • All the evidence, though, shows that he is the most divisive and untrustworthy minister the portfolio has had for as long as most of us can remember.
  • According to Mau, it has to appeal to women, fit current home-decor trends and look "trustworthy" -- hence no boxes depicting scenes from, say, SmartMoney.com
  • If the last twenty-five years had taught him anything it was that outward appearances were wholly untrustworthy.
  • Pleasant and courteous people are not necessarily honest and trustworthy. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Rejoined the wolf, I have no faith in thy word, for sages have said, ‘Whoso practiseth trust in the place of hate, erreth;’ and, ‘Whoso trusteth in the untrustworthy is a dupe; he who re-trieth him who hath been tried shall reap repentance and his days shall go waste; and he who cannot distinguish between case and case, giving each its due, and assigneth all the weight to one side, his luck shall be little and his miseries shall be many.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Plus, you may think your accountant or attorney is trustworthy, efficient and reputable, but you'll never know for sure.
  • Which party leader do you think is the most honest and trustworthy? Times, Sunday Times
  • We are instructed to be trustworthy stewards of the goods that have been placed in our care. Times, Sunday Times
  • I would like to think they would say I am trustworthy, helpful and reliable.
  • Why do they call him, variously, treacherous, untrustworthy, racist, pig-headed, short-sighted, dishonest, stupid and vicious?
  • Which party leader do you think is the most honest and trustworthy? Times, Sunday Times
  • Pleasant and courteous people are not necessarily honest and trustworthy. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Such membership then permitted the dominant society to make the slaves ‘rightless.’ The slaves were also designated by masters as ignorant, backward, lazy, and untrustworthy, among many other negative characteristics.
  • Even had we, however, a perfect and trustworthy transcript of Shakespeare's original sketch for this play, there can be little doubt that the rough draught would still prove almost as different from the final masterpiece as is the soiled and ragged canvas now before us, on which we trace the outline of figures so strangely disfigured, made subject to such rude extremities of defacement and defeature. A Study of Shakespeare
  • In a more restricted sense: A branch of study which is concerned either with a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified and more or less colligated by being brought under general laws, and which includes trustworthy methods for the discovery of new truth within its own domain. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • South is the least trustworthy direction on a compass.
  • an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion
  • Membership also confers a stamp of approval, proving to potential clients that a firm's products are trustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • These statistics have been employed to suggest that a lot of evidently happily married women are faithless and untrustworthy people who have ruthlessly deceived their unsuspecting husbands.
  • You are likely to get trustworthy pals, while some others may go for a new vehicle.
  • A man who has spent over 20 years of his football career at just two clubs is sure to be reliable, solid and trustworthy.
  • The only reason that Clinton’s understandable (but not excusable) lying to strangers about an affair would be disqualifying is if it lead you to believe he was not trustworthy in public life. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Short List
  • If the last twenty-five years had taught him anything it was that outward appearances were wholly untrustworthy.
  • These two details are enough to make you an untrustworthy character, according to Barclays. Times, Sunday Times
  • She is indifferent, negligent, unfeeling, untrustworthy, and perfidious.
  • The most adored relative, the cherished lover, the dearest friend may inspire devotion, yet remain untrustworthy.
  • Respect comes as we show ourselves trustworthy and competent in the minor details as well. Christianity Today
  • The viewpoint of agnostics is highly valuable for the very reason that the viewpoint is considered unbiased by religion, and thus more trustworthy. Advice for the Theistic Evolutionists
  • So what is to stop untrustworthy people in football from behaving in a similarly reprehensible manner and taking our game to the brink of no return? The Sun
  • Someone who understands what it is to be honest and trustworthy, that is who I want my daughter to look up to. Campaigning in Kentucky, Clinton hears sermon on infidelity
  • The irony is that his deal with Lateline was the sort of untrustworthy action that he spends time in his diaries attacking the media for.
  • The personality is trusting and trustworthy, indulgent and generous to itself and others.
  • You prefer to describe yourself as dependable, honest, practical and trustworthy.
  • Wookieepedia is fairly trustworthy; we strictly prohibit any fan-made information, i.e. “fanon.” BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » A Padawan’s Journal, Entry #3: Hitting the (Star Wars) Books
  • Or are they more likely to be dependable, honest and trustworthy? Times, Sunday Times
  • He was honest and trustworthy and drove for a fixed fare set by the hotel.
  • Friends, family and influential colleagues might also refer you to a trustworthy tailor.
  • The first couple of times we meet her she seems to be a scheming, untrustworthy person willing to try any ploy to attract the attention of Maximus.
  • Are partners really less trustworthy these days? Times, Sunday Times
  • I, a rootless cosmopolitan and a linguist to boot which means I have no trustworthy native-speaker intuitions, think I say "pinwheel," but the subject comes up so rarely I can't be sure; at any rate, it sounds more familiar to me. Languagehat.com: MARVIN.
  • So for some men it was clear that their offending was really about seeking intimacy with kids as opposed to adults, who they saw as untrustworthy.
  • From the positions of the heads and eyes, do they look honest and straightforward, shy, or furtive and untrustworthy?
  • But, you also have been seen as ethical, trustworthy and honest.
  • The literary executors must of course be trustworthy and, unless the star is expected to die young, should be younger than him. Times, Sunday Times
  • His friends found his clarity a priceless exchange, and his warmth, expressed in a smile you could call boyish, completely trustworthy. Archive 2009-02-01
  • As in the other two we find in No.3 that amount of Conscientiousness which will give a desire to fulfil the duties devolving upon her in a trustworthy manner.
  • I know my rose-coloured glass optimism keeps me somewhat naïve, but I honestly do believe that people are good, trustworthy and honourable, and I see expressions of gratitude all the time, everywhere I look, more often than not. Beverley Golden: A Little Gratitude for Servers, Please and Thank You
  • He has been a bit tentative lately but has consistantly been trustworthy from the start. The Tail Section » LOST - Who Can Ya Trust?
  • In the references, many of which were undated, Huntley was described as ‘reliable, honest and trustworthy’.
  • As the truth came out, the Government made itself look incompetent, deceitful and untrustworthy.
  • When that story is clearly a cut-and-paste, identikit lash-up by two of Fleet Street's least trustworthy political journalists – and that is saying something – you have the measure of the beast. Archive 2007-06-01
  • It is a self - fulfilling prophecy to assume that your information workers are untrustworthy.
  • With their chemical and synthetic medicines the newer disciplines were seen as more scientific, credible and trustworthy. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
  • At its best the guesthouse could be a world unto itself, moderately cool in the blazing afternoon, far from lavish, yet still a trustworthy provider of clean bedsheets and bottled water and other ordinary comforts. Heaven Lake
  • This is going to be the most biased, one-sided, totally untrustworthy book review you'll ever read.
  • He is entirely untrustworthy and does not fulfil his promises - people should not be fooled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Free Cable* TV cubbyhole boss cytology b's bracket nation gauntlet chairperson trustworthy hendrick praise pubescent bookbind aflame archival resolution laminate dehumidify centrex christoffel inflict autocracy stupid minion bravo consecrate clutter middleweight version bash dogwood lavabo term beechwood chaparral poseur begetting deviate margaret caliphate obstinacy chablis bestirring bevel abstain aberdeen cavil audiotape scurrilous rupture tomb schelling slug loudspeaker tame barnhard rotten chatty barbudo cyanide bach bethlehem redstone Catpewk Diary Entry
  • In this twisted world view, teachers, nursery staff and now childminders are assumed to be the least trustworthy adults of all.
  • This view of the development of the vibracula, if trustworthy, is interesting; for supposing that all the species provided with avicularia had become extinct, no one with the most vivid imagination would ever have thought that the vibracula had originally existed as part of an organ, resembling a bird’s head or an irregular box or hood. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
  • Which person is more trustworthy? Times, Sunday Times
  • Birds are numerous, from the “scrub fowl” which dwells in the dim jungle and constructs of decaying leaves and wood and light loam the most trustworthy of incubators, and wastes no valuable time in the dead-and-alive duty of sitting, to the tiny sun-bird of yellow and purple, which flits all day among scarlet hibiscus blooms, sips nectar from the flame-tree, and rifles the dull red studs of the umbrella tree of their sweetness. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • But the news from Ireland was bad: trustworthy tenants were thin on the ground.
  • They are transformed into a conviction of being quite generally unreliable, untrustworthy, and insatiable. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
  • Some 40 per cent have concluded that she is neither honest nor trustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Javanese are a very docile, amiable, and intelligent people; they are faithful and honest servants, and are brave and trustworthy in danger, when they can trust to their leaders. Mark Seaworth
  • Rove, Beck, Hannity et al never hesitated to tell us what a great job our trustworthy patriots at Federal agencies from the FBI to CIA to NSA to EPA to Treasury were doing, and we just needed to get out of the way and let them mop up. Privileged And Impotent | ATTACKERMAN
  • He is very trustworthy, but loves a good gossip. Times, Sunday Times
  • Can you engage that all his statements are trustworthy?
  • I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy.
  • A tablespoon of fat - butter, bacon grease, mild oil - is gently warmed in a small, trustworthy skillet.
  • We should place our trust not so much in leaders who seem trustworthy as those whose actions prove they are. Christianity Today
  • It looks like a new differentiation in the fearsome-internet collection because now 'old' new media corps are trustworthy, as opposed to the runaway wild-fire gossip of Twitter with its 'decontextualised misinformation'. Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Microblogging terror: Twitter threats and an arrest
  • The groups change every few sessions and they're very open and trustworthy.
  • Some 40 per cent have concluded that she is neither honest nor trustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • It now relies on purely psychological tests for its researches, and although it does not exclude the methods adopted in the laboratory, and the use of such accurate and trustworthy instruments as the esthesiometer and the ergograph, the school itself has become the chief field of experiment. Spontaneous Activity in Education
  • Clinton was widely described as unlikeable and untrustworthy. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • The trustworthy parson and the trustworthy squire are the twin pillars of rural life.
  • A public assembly, though composed of men of the smallest possible culture, nevertheless will see clearly the difference between a mere demagogue (that is, a flatterer and untrustworthy citizen) and a man of principle, standing, and solidity. Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
  • Even the low-skilled workers who distribute the hospital meals and disinfect the bedpans must be highly trustworthy, for if they do their job wrong, patients will die.
  • How trustworthy is your personal assistant? Times, Sunday Times
  • My girlfriend is a loyal and trustworthy person. The Sun
  • Holding a hand in front of the mouth makes a politician look untrustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the last twenty-five years had taught him anything it was that outward appearances were wholly untrustworthy.
  • You have no choice but to look after your own interests and ensure that those who are less trustworthy know that you are doing so. Times, Sunday Times
  • My point here is that being motivated by a desire to maintain a relationship (the central motivation of a trustworthy person on the encapsulated interests view) may not require one to adopt all of the interests of the truster that would actually make one trustworthy to that person. Trust
  • The officer said the defendant had expressed himself as somebody who was trustworthy, very reliable and keen.
  • I am honest, trustworthy, caring, work damn hard and have no political aspirations or agenda.
  • Croft, whose secretary Nodier was for a time, dignified in French books by the name of "_philologue_ Anglais"), a good deal more than a kind of bibliographer (he spent the last twenty years of his life as Librarian of the Arsenal), and an enthusiastic and stimulating, though not exactly trustworthy, critic. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • Listening to this week's forecasts of a ‘killer winter’, it seems worth recalling that meteorology has often been a byword for untrustworthy predictions.
  • A caring neighbour both honest and trustworthy, he loved the affairs of the day.
  • The conduct of the Negro during the war proves him kindly, temperate, trustworthy; his conduct since the war reveals in him considerateness, purpose, capacity, an order of growing good qualities. Black and White
  • What happened to the influential intellectuals and the trustworthy journalists explaining the ineluctable consequences of your present policies?
  • If you want your mom to trust you, you have to be a trustworthy person.
  • The Siberian Husky loves children and its reliable temperament makes it trustworthy.
  • A godly woman you have known for years and whom you love and know to be absolutely trustworthy tells you she received a Visitation from an angel last night when she was at prayer.
  • References attached to the form described him as ‘reliable, honest and trustworthy’.
  • backshish" in the event of success, but I got no trustworthy news, "and that was the end of that hunting. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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  • His crew chief is an untrustworthy schemer who hates teammate Hank for stealing his girlfriend.
  • Emotional abusers often seem to be charismatic and trustworthy, that is until one gets to really know them. SaraKay Smullens: The Balloon Hoax and Emotional Abuse Awareness
  • However, if the person has shown himself to be reliable, trustworthy, and honest, you can be far more confident that he will keep his word.
  • He is reliable, dependable, and trustworthy. Christianity Today
  • Mr. Smith is a stuffy lawyer, unassuming, straight-laced, reliable - traits that make him a trustworthy friend.
  • Membership also confers a stamp of approval, proving to potential clients that a firm's products are trustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • In an ironic twist , the most trustworthy character in the film turned out to be the thief.
  • On the other hand, they are using graphs from papers that are criticizable because of the very same reasons and they essentially encourage the reader to think that these reconstructions are trustworthy even though the actual content of the chapters 9 and 11 leads to the opposite conclusion. The Reference Frame
  • It is exceptionally difficult to obtain and keep reliable, trustworthy people. Times, Sunday Times
  • Partners cannot be completely trustful because this makes them too vulnerable, but they cannot be completely untrustworthy because it harms cooperative efforts.
  • If the fourth gospel is held to be of apostolic origin and trustworthy, the task of the harmonist is chiefly that of combining these two records of Mark and John. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
  • His only regret was that he was perceived as untrustworthy.
  • Even if you remove the mod chip, he said, your machine cannot be unbanned, as it's Microsoft's belief that it can never be seen as trustworthy again.
  • Once employed, I class myself as a trustworthy and reliable person, despite the fact I have a back problem.
  • I'd say not being honest and trustworthy is a fair assessment for Dodd. Poll: Dodd on the rebound?
  • Therefore Meyer, Van Horn, and Co. had the satisfaction of reading that William S. Gowdy was altogether too impulsive, erratic and unreliable -- happily Hill did not employ the word "untrustworthy" -- for holding a quasi-public position of some importance. Under the Skylights
  • Lee, by the way, had constantly insinuated that Franklin was blamably lax, if not actually untrustworthy, in money matters, though all the while he and his friend Izard had been quite shameless in extorting from the doctor very large sums for their own expenses. Benjamin Franklin
  • `We also have to have assurances that the would-be salvor is trustworthy and well-meaning. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • While he could be a shrewd and tough political operator when it was needed, he will mainly be remembered as a decent trustworthy person with an deep core of human kindness.
  • Pleasant and courteous people are not necessarily honest and trustworthy. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • To argue semantics again, though, I don't think trustworthy is the same as, uh, right. This is why I don't have a blogroll. Or friends.
  • He tried and failed to sound reassuring, giving his most trustworthy smile.
  • He is reliable, dependable, and trustworthy. Christianity Today
  • There is a widespread suspicion that a deeply untrustworthy establishment is preparing to sell them out. The Sun
  • They are untrustworthy, always keen to assure buyers there is "a lot of interest" in some pokey basement, while at the same time telling sellers that a mingy offer is the best they will get.
  • I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy.
  • Which party leader do you think is the most honest and trustworthy? Times, Sunday Times
  • These tires go by a ridiculous name — Dunlop SP SportMaxx GT 275/35ZR20 in the rear — but they are very seriously engineered bits and indispensable to the gestalt of the car, which is: balanced; direct; trustworthy; lightweight but with wonderful, gathering momentum; hugely stiff but with a certain useful limberness. Jaguar Builds a Primped and Pampered Monster
  • Not only is he friendly, trustworthy and a good English speaker, he's a top laugh too.
  • What happens if we have to alter the safe to unsafe, when danger suddenly erupts from an apparently trustworthy place or person? Everyday Violence
  • What happens if we have to alter the safe to unsafe, when danger suddenly erupts from an apparently trustworthy place or person? Everyday Violence
  • He didn't have to do anything because he'd been calling her untrustworthy for weeks. Obama Criticizes Debate, Says Hillary "Looked In Her Element"
  • All of the people who work for me are fully qualified and trustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those that know him can attest that he is reliable, trustworthy, and honest.
  • Considerable difficulty was experienced in finding a trustworthy man to act as muleteer, [and]… we were repeatedly disappointed in the non-arrival of our day's water and provisions.
  • an untrustworthy person
  • Here dear Anderson had built a retreat for her bantams - there was no man kinder or more trustworthy.
  • Mercalli is probably more trustworthy, it is interesting to compare his isoseismal lines with those obtained by his French colleagues, which are reproduced in Fig. 20. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
  • Rycroft was believable as he had worked for them from 1998 to 2000 and was regarded as trustworthy.
  • It shouldn’t surprise them that a guy who wasn’t trustworthy within an important area of his life (his marriage) was also not trustworthy within a less important area (this pager is a private means of communication). should not be surprising. The Volokh Conspiracy » Communicating With Those Who Have No Privacy Rights: The Hard Question in City of Ontario v. Quon
  • Our natural resources have been signed over to them by our untrustworthy gombeen men - the so-called politicians.
  • The likelihood of executing an untrustworthy program is dramatically increased owing to the prevalence of Internet.
  • Life with a largely cheerful, trustworthy chap who makes you happy and regular contact and nights out with your close friends. The Sun
  • He is reliable, dependable, and trustworthy. Christianity Today
  • The two first were themselves emphatically "eccentrics" -- one an apostle of dandyism (he actually wrote a book about Brummel, whom he had met early), a disdainful critic of rather untrustworthy vigour, and a stalwart reactionary to Catholicism and Royalism; the other a devotee of the exact opposite of dandyism, as the title of his best-known book, _Les A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • Many voters consider him untrustworthy and spin-obsessed.
  • Even if you believe that they support the same goals, it is clear that they are untrustworthy and incompetent.
  • It was a busy Thursday night, and after serving what to her appeared to be a trustworthy family of four, she cheerfully left the billfold and check for them to pay when they were ready. Beverley Golden: A Little Gratitude for Servers, Please and Thank You
  • His job could be done remotely, and he has worked for me for some years and proven he is both reliable and trustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • To his left, in the passenger seat, his trustworthy adjutant read the mission roster.
  • I think language is one of the many ways we learn to identify those who are trustworthy and loyal to us.
  • The first step is to divide the civilian world into two, separating the trustworthy cooperators from the noncooperators, so we don't have to search every car, package, and pocket.
  • Something in her told her she could trust him and he reinforced that feeling by being trustworthy.
  • Not only is he friendly, trustworthy and a good English speaker, he's a top laugh too.
  • Make clear to your children the times when you see them as trustworthy, teachable, and reliable or how much you appreciate their honesty, patience, kindness, or diligence.
  • Free Cable* TV cubbyhole boss cytology b's bracket nation gauntlet chairperson trustworthy hendrick praise pubescent bookbind aflame archival resolution laminate dehumidify centrex christoffel inflict autocracy stupid minion bravo consecrate clutter middleweight version bash dogwood lavabo term beechwood chaparral poseur begetting deviate margaret caliphate obstinacy chablis bestirring bevel abstain aberdeen cavil audiotape scurrilous rupture tomb schelling slug loudspeaker tame barnhard rotten chatty barbudo cyanide bach bethlehem redstone Catpewk Diary Entry
  • I just find paper records more reliable and trustworthy, " said David Hildebrand, 72.
  • The Swiss Guard of about a thousand men were all trustworthy; and there was also a small body of heavy cavalry of the gendarmery who had proved true enough to resist all the seductions of the conspirators. The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • And as speech comes under threat of regulation it becomes not more trustworthy but less so. Times, Sunday Times
  • a trustworthy report
  • Between all the cable channels, talk radio stations, newswires, morning DJs, and blogs, our news is less trustworthy than ever.
  • Do not open any files attached to an e - mail from an unknown, suspicious or untrustworthy source.
  • He looks very professional and trustworthy, and I hope things work out for him.
  • Just as candidate Cain has to deal with the long-term ramifications of the sexual harassment controversy, the right-wing press will emerge from the saga in a much weaker and even less trustworthy state. Eric Boehlert: With Cain, Right-Wing Media Fail First Test of 2012 Campaign
  • He is very trustworthy, but loves a good gossip. Times, Sunday Times
  • As to the only positive evidence in the case - the muddy footmarks upon the floor - they were so blurred by the softness of the carpet that it was impossible to make any trustworthy deduction from them.
  • Calling someone untrustworthy is more negative than saying someone is inexperienced. Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'
  • Analogously, it may be true that we possess dedicated mechanisms for ˜reading™ faces as trustworthy or threatening, and often make split-second judgments on this basis; but this doesn't preclude our ability to revise such judgments, as when we reflect on the behavior of someone with ˜trustworthy facial features™ and realize that he is actually a scoundrel. Morality and Evolutionary Biology
  • Just because people are religious believers, it does not mean they must be ethical, moral and trustworthy. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • He is reliable, dependable, and trustworthy. Christianity Today
  • The company owners and executives who knows SEO as it is the most valuable key of digital marketing intend to establish long-term trustworthy business relationships with SEO consulting companies. [Help] Most Recent Posts
  • As a historian, then, Thucydides is more trustworthy. A Historian For Our Time
  • The zetetic faithful reason about this matter as though the impressions of the senses were trustworthy under all conditions, familiar or otherwise; whereas, in point of fact, we know that the senses often deceive, even under familiar conditions, and almost always deceive under conditions, which are not familiar. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
  • We have heard of a recent trustworthy account of a pregnancy and delivery in a girl who had been impregnated by a bed-fellow who on examination proved to be a male pseudohermaphrodite. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The same trustworthy sources complained that the canned music was too darn loud, but perhaps that's a problem which will have been ironed out by now.
  • The last thing you want to worry about when you invest your hard-earned cash is whether your adviser is trustworthy.
  • He was intelligent and able, but deemed untrustworthy by most of his social and political equals.
  • I don’t trust them not to abuse this sort of technology, indeed they have shown themselves time and time again untrustworthy to have it, especially where that technology can be used so easily to deny individual rights and freedoms. A Perfect Device For Unruly Youth? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
  • In short, the feeling of being trusted makes a person more trustworthy. Times, Sunday Times
  • We pick up the occasional word - ‘ethical… responsible… trustworthy’ - and we sense that Bill is compiling an antonymous description of the young man.
  • There is a level at which these films are patriarchal wish - fulfilment fantasies, in which our troubles are resolved by a trustworthy father - figure.
  • She had looked so exceptionally well-dressed the previous evening he had supposed that what she called ruin was comparative affluence, for Bruce had not yet learned that clothes are unsafe standards by which to judge the resources of city folks, just as on the plains and in the mountains faded overalls and a ragged shirt are equally untrustworthy guides to a man's financial rating. The Man from the Bitter Roots
  • The popular version implies that the Americans are untrustworthy and the British honest.

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