mistrust

Mr. Davies registers the mistrust many patients felt toward medical research after abuses such as the 1932-72 Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Major job-search platforms say they are focused on what’s phony and sowing mistrust.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

The health response lacks sufficient resources and has been overwhelmed by the surge in cases, while there has been widespread mistrust in parts of the community.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

It was a time of deep-rooted mistrust in policing and a street code that forbade snitching to authorities.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

If only she’d see what it was really like here, she wouldn’t mistrust the Americans so much.

From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez

On the contrary, he mistrusts them, scorning even the praise heaped upon him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Johann Scholtz, European bank analyst at Morningstar, mistrusts the earnings expectations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

Intelligence officials say that Moscow was initially hesitant to reach out to Tehran, whose leaders it mistrusts and whose nuclear ambitions it has consistently opposed.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022

The fisherman mistrusts her motive and gains enlightenment when she tells him there is no deceit in heaven.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016

My mother mistrusts him too, and so does Mr. Denny.

From Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Harold Avery

But its strangeness also seems appropriate, considering the epic oddity of the South African’s ascension from mistrusted Silicon Valley wannabe to ever-confident cheerleader for space dreams and electric vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

History is a useful reminder that a royal scandal is a convenient tool for an unpopular and beleaguered political class, a mistrusted army of newspaper hacks, and a disgruntled public, desperate for a plausible villain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Involving the Shin Bet, which is deeply mistrusted by Palestinian citizens, is another sign of the tone deafness, critics say.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2023

Dr Mahathir, the first Malaysian leader not to be educated in Britain, mistrusted Western influence.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2022

He did not truly feel good because the pain from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and gone into a dullness that he mistrusted.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

To the Ukrainian leader -- seen as mistrusting of those with political ambitions or popular appeal -- the ever-loyal Syrsky, a career military man, was in many respects an ideal commander.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

But what makes that introduction to the world of “Holland” particularly irksome is not just that it’s mistrusting of its audience, but that it’s also mistrusting of the film itself.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025

"My child started losing faith in me, they started mistrusting me."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023

As a result, Ada was mistrusting and suspicious.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

I felt ashamed that I could even think about mistrusting Quintus.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan