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distrusted

verb as in be suspicious, skeptical of

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I, like him, disapprove of our politics, inherent racism and misogyny and I remember, “Where all human connections are distrusted, the human being is very quickly lost.”

From Salon

They all said they distrusted uniformed law enforcement based on past experiences of abuse.

From BBC

If the campus distrusted Dr. Shafik two months ago, the relationship is now approaching estrangement.

What happened in the ambulance remains a flashpoint in the Black community’s deteriorating relationship with the city’s 400-plus-member police department, an agency so troubled and distrusted that state officials last year took it over.

During the Ebola epidemic of 2018-20, for example, it was clear that the disease was lethal and that many Congolese people distrusted their government.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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