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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mistrust \Mis*trust"\, noun Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mistrust \Mis*trust"\, verb (used with an object)
1. To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.
I will never mistrust my wife again. --Shak.
2. To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mistrust
noun
1: doubt about someone's honesty [syn: {misgiving}, {distrust}, {suspicion}]
2: the trait of not trusting others [syn: {distrust}, {distrustfulness}] [ant: {trust}]
verb: regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in [syn: {distrust}, {suspect}] [ant: {trust}, {trust}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "mistrust": Pyrrhonism, apprehension, apprehensiveness, awake a doubt, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be possessive, be skeptical, be uncertain, beware, cageyness, call in question, challenge, chariness, contest, diffidence, dispute, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, greet with skepticism, half believe, half-belief, harbor suspicions, have reservations, leeriness, misdoubt, misgive, misgiving, mistrustfulness, query, question, raise a question, reservation, scepticism, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, smell a rat, suspect, suspicion, suspiciousness, throw doubt upon, total skepticism, treat with reserve, uncertainty, unsureness, wariness
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