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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of distrust.

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Examples

  • And there was an expression about his beak which I distrusted from the first.

    My Robin 1912

  • Not only was the man whom we trusted taken away, but the man whom we distrusted is made the captain of our hosts.

    Sermon on the Occasion of the Death of President Lincoln. Rev. C. B. Crane. 1865

  • But the police have proved to be an especially risky investment and are often described as distrusted, even loathed, by Afghan civilians.

    News & Observer: Home Page 2010

  • As luck would have it, the Russian troops were ethnic Bulcassians, whom Stalin distrusted.

    Crater Defence! 2008

  • Perhaps the last two words are to be rejected, and {apistous} to be taken in its usual sense, "distrusted"; cp. viii.

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • Certain it is that the view of any nation is to be distrusted which is not taken from a station of good-will.

    James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury 1876

  • Ashfaq Kayani "distrusted" the opposition leader Nawaz Sharif.

    The Guardian World News Declan Walsh 2010

  • Coverage of army chief General Ashfaq Kayani focused on revelations that he threatened to oust Zardari last year but held back because he "distrusted" opposition contender Nawaz Sharif.

    The Guardian World News John Hooper 2010

  • Looking back, no president distrusted the wealthy more – hence, the income tax, the interstate commerce commission, a special justice department section just to investigate corporate crimes, all of it stems from Teddy.

    Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis I 2009

  • They believed in themselves and distrusted the leaders they elected.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

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