untrustworthy person

Mr Justice Griffiths said Jones remained a "highly dangerous and untrustworthy person" and the seriousness of the offences meant a sentence of life imprisonment had to be imposed.

"He has no business being in the halls of the House of Representatives. He's an immoral person, he's an untrustworthy person, he's scammed hundreds of thousands of voters," Representative Nick LaLota, a Republican who also represents a New York suburb, told reporters on Wednesday.

In his 1941 book, The Mask of Sanity, the influential US psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley set out the personality profile of a psychopath: a superficially charming but egocentric and untrustworthy person who conceals an antisocial core.

Last month, Lily Sánchez and Nathan Robinson wrote for Current Affairs that "it's only because Biden and the Democrats have been so disappointing that someone like Kennedy, an abysmal candidate and totally untrustworthy person, can be attracting any support at all."

“By fictionalizing away my innocence, my total lack of involvement, by erasing the role of the authorities in my wrongful conviction, McCarthy reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person,” Knox wrote on Twitter.