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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mistrust.

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Examples

  • That language, and specifically figurative language should be mistrusted is now beyond argument: language does reduce and replace the world; we live in a dream of language that, while it facilitates our movement through it, obscures the world at every turn.

    Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • She brought out doughnuts and beach-plum jelly and insisted on my sampling both, the doughnuts because they were just made and she "mistrusted" there was too much flour in them, and the jelly because it was some she had left over and she wanted to see if I thought it was "keepin '" all right.

    The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • This concern I had was only made more urgent when my doctor at Lake Chapala advised me not to drink "purified" water prepared and sold by one local water company there as she mistrusted there quality control procedures.

    On Crossing the MoMo Bridge 2009

  • Whether the Tories will further demonstrate their outdated and mistrusted attitude towards the public, is an important question that remains to be answered.

    The Bercow bounce, and possible fall… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009

  • Suleiman, already mistrusted because of his previous roles in Mubarak's regime, has been approved by the Israeli government as a successor to Mubarak.

    Mubarak's defiance could spell disaster 2011

  • The idea is simplicity squared, though nobody else would dare come up with such a radical departure from the tried and mistrusted formulae which so many shows prefaced by the word celebrity rely on.

    2010 February « The Graveyard 2010

  • Funny though, how Obama has to get his inexperienced nose into everything and everyone's business, like he knows what to do, and yet he won't touch this Iran thing with a ten foot pole .... sounds awful fishy; especially since it concerns the most mistrusted president of our times, and his islam roots.

    U.S. officials: Twitter, Facebook providing critical information on Iran situation 2009

  • So far reaction among average Iraqis has been subdued, in part because Mr. Sadr's associates said they still mistrusted U.S. intentions.

    Maliki Takes Hard Line on American Withdrawal Sam Dagher 2011

  • It is a shame, there is probably nothing wrong with this speech as far as its contents, and unfortunately, the controversy over shows just how much this president has become mistrusted during the first 9 month of his administration.

    WH set to release text of controversial Obama school speech 2009

  • The idea is simplicity squared, though nobody else would dare come up with such a radical departure from the tried and mistrusted formulae which so many shows prefaced by the word celebrity rely on.

    “Bread And Circuses” – The Future Of Celebrity Television « The Graveyard 2010

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