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smells a rat

Main Entry:
distrust [dis-truhst]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be suspicious, skeptical of
Synonyms: be wary of, disbelieve, discredit, doubt, misbelieve, mistrust, question, smell a rat, suspect, wonder about
Notes: to distrust is to suspect someone is dishonest; to mistrust is to merely lack confidence in someone
mistrust involves a withholding of confidence, whereas distrust involves a projection of lack of confidence or suspicion
Antonyms: be confident, believe, credit, trust
Main Entry: suspect
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: distrust; guess
Synonyms: assume, be afraid, believe, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, disbelieve, doubt, expect, feel, gather, harbor suspicion, have a hunch, have doubt, have sneaking suspicion, hazard a guess, hold, imagine, mistrust, presume, reckon, smell a rat, speculate, suppose, surmise, think, think probable, understand, wonder
Antonyms: know, trust
Main Entry: misdoubt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: doubt
Synonyms: be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have one's doubts, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, question, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder, wonder at
Main Entry: misdoubt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: distrust
Synonyms: be wary of, disbelieve, discredit, doubt, misbelieve, mistrust, question, smell a rat, suspect, wonder about
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Main Entry: doubt
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
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