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distrusted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
distrust \dis*trust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distrusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distrusting.] [Cf. Mistrust.] To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.
Not distrusting my health.
--2 Mac. ix.
22.
To distrust the justice of your cause.
--Dryden.
He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other.
--Udall.
Of all afraid,
Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid.
--Collins.
Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust.
--T. L. K. Oliphant.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: distrust)
Usage examples of "distrusted".
At other times, she was certain he disliked and distrusted Zainal - and her, by virtue of her association with the former Emassi officer.
Shyren flashed a crooked smile that Cerryl distrusted almost as much as he did Anya's.
Cerryl had kept checking the glass, watching Kinowin and Leyladin, but both seemed to continue their daily routines, from what Cerryl could tell, and he dared not use the glass on those he distrusted the most, fearing that alone would tell them too much.
Princes, especially new ones, have found more fidelity and assistance in those men who in the beginning of their rule were distrusted than among those who in the beginning were trusted.
Pandolfo Petrucci, Prince of Siena, ruled his state more by those who had been distrusted than by others.
His feet distrusted the stone, but he locked his knees, and tried to disregard the sensation.
Knot, like Finesse, distrusted what was developing at the villa-prison.