mistrust

Whether or not you’ve done anything to deserve this mistrust, it seems like your employees feel a bit uneasy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

There has been deep mistrust between China and India since the 2020 border dispute, but those tensions have eased.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Mr. Davies registers the mistrust many patients felt toward medical research after abuses such as the 1932-72 Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

As universities crack down on AI, extreme monitoring policies and false accusations are fueling a deep mistrust between professors and students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

She needed Skahaz and the Brazen Beasts, and she had come to mistrust all of Reznak’s counsel.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

On the contrary, he mistrusts them, scorning even the praise heaped upon him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Johann Scholtz, European bank analyst at Morningstar, mistrusts the earnings expectations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

He mistrusts the bureaucracy but will need to use it to cope with so many hot spots at once.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2018

The fisherman mistrusts her motive and gains enlightenment when she tells him there is no deceit in heaven.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016

My love for you, Gabriel, makes me anxious to think well of her, but my fatherly care mistrusts her as a wife for a man of your nature.'

From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume

History is a useful reminder that a royal scandal is a convenient tool for an unpopular and beleaguered political class, a mistrusted army of newspaper hacks, and a disgruntled public, desperate for a plausible villain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

USC insisted that complaints be first processed under the university’s internal Title IX office — which many students said they mistrusted due to delays and other deficiencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

Ben McKenzie mistrusted Sam Bankman-Fried after spending an hour with him.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2023

Involving the Shin Bet, which is deeply mistrusted by Palestinian citizens, is another sign of the tone deafness, critics say.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2023

“I had to see you—not that I mistrusted Samuel, but just to prove it to myself.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

To the Ukrainian leader -- seen as mistrusting of those with political ambitions or popular appeal -- the ever-loyal Syrsky, a career military man, was in many respects an ideal commander.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Together with a delegation of deeply mistrusting negotiators from Tehran, Vance is tasked with striking a lasting peace between rival nations that have failed to keep promises made days ago in a delicate last-minute ceasefire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

But what makes that introduction to the world of “Holland” particularly irksome is not just that it’s mistrusting of its audience, but that it’s also mistrusting of the film itself.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025

"My child started losing faith in me, they started mistrusting me."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023

More and more, mistrusting his interpreters, he tries to speak in Kikongo.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver