Distrust
noun
When you think someone or something cannot be trusted.
She has a deep distrust of her brother's intentions.
Often appears as...
- deep distrust
- mutual distrust
verb
To not trust or believe someone or something.
I distrust his ability to keep a secret.
Often appears as...
- distrust someone
- distrust something
noun
When you think someone or something cannot be trusted.
She has a deep distrust of her brother's intentions.
Often appears as...
- deep distrust
- mutual distrust
verb
To not trust or believe someone or something.
I distrust his ability to keep a secret.
Often appears as...
- distrust someone
- distrust something
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Feeling-Based
Distrust often involves emotions; it's not just a logical conclusion.
His evasiveness filled me with a sense of distrust.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Rational
Distrust can exist without solid proof, based on intuition or feelings.
Despite the evidence, a distrust of the official story lingered.
Pro Tip 3/3Used in Relationships
Commonly applied to personal relationships, hinting at broken bonds or betrayal.
After the affair, there was an air of distrust in their marriage.
Pro Tip 1/3Feeling-Based
Distrust often involves emotions; it's not just a logical conclusion.
His evasiveness filled me with a sense of distrust.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Rational
Distrust can exist without solid proof, based on intuition or feelings.
Despite the evidence, a distrust of the official story lingered.
Pro Tip 3/3Used in Relationships
Commonly applied to personal relationships, hinting at broken bonds or betrayal.
After the affair, there was an air of distrust in their marriage.
Pro Tip 1/3Feeling-Based
Distrust often involves emotions; it's not just a logical conclusion.
His evasiveness filled me with a sense of distrust.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Rational
Distrust can exist without solid proof, based on intuition or feelings.
Despite the evidence, a distrust of the official story lingered.
Pro Tip 3/3Used in Relationships
Commonly applied to personal relationships, hinting at broken bonds or betrayal.
After the affair, there was an air of distrust in their marriage.
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The rise of modern...
Liberal democracies helped bring stability to the nations that adopted them. But like any system of government, they didn’t solve everything. Among other issues, an ever-increasing wealth gap led to underserved communities who distrusted both their wealthy neighbors and their political leaders.
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Naomi Oreskes: Why we...
but it's not based on any individual, no matter how smart that individual may be. It's based on the collective wisdom, the collective knowledge, the collective work, of all of the scientists who have worked on a particular problem. Scientists have a kind of culture of collective distrust,
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Philip Howard: Four ways...
So, how do you restore trust? Tweaking the law's clearly not good enough, and tort reform, which is a great idea, lowers your cost if you're a businessperson, but it's like a Band-Aid on this gaping wound of distrust. States with extensive tort reform still suffer all these pathologies.
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Isaac Lidsky: What...
In your career and personal life, in your relationships, and in your heart and soul, your backwards-swimming fish do you great harm. They exact a toll in missed opportunities and unrealized potential, and they engender insecurity and distrust where you seek fulfillment and connection.
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Flat Earth vs. Round...
to believe that the world is flat and you know it's more than just distrust and government it's this notion that thousands of years of empirical scientific evidence is now being dismissed as a mere conspiracy and that's where I think it really starts getting dangerous for all of us
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Sahaj Kaur Kohli: Why...
So, you know, the thing about chronic guilt is that it can force us to be small. It can tell us we must stay within the box. We shouldn't take up a lot of space. It kind of encourages us to distrust our own needs and wants, especially if they differ from the people around us
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Take the Money... and...
how many of you have heard the phrase if it's too good to be true it probably is wise words to live by right what if we set up an experiment where that wasn't the case when people's distrust keep
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How deepfakes undermine...
So deepfakes can exploit and magnify the deep distrust that we already have in politicians, business leaders and other influential leaders. They find an audience primed to believe them.
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First Look: The Long...
I am constantly having to choose where my allegiances lie. Jassim? Sir? Take it. Sir, you cannot give him a weapon. Some of the soldiers distrust my character
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Living Among Wolves PIPE...
a relationship with wolves is so full of fear and distrust but it doesn't need to
Video examples
The rise of modern...
Liberal democracies helped bring stability to the nations that adopted them. But like any system of government, they didn’t solve everything. Among other issues, an ever-increasing wealth gap led to underserved communities who distrusted both their wealthy neighbors and their political leaders.
Video examples
Naomi Oreskes: Why we...
but it's not based on any individual, no matter how smart that individual may be. It's based on the collective wisdom, the collective knowledge, the collective work, of all of the scientists who have worked on a particular problem. Scientists have a kind of culture of collective distrust,
Video examples
Philip Howard: Four ways...
So, how do you restore trust? Tweaking the law's clearly not good enough, and tort reform, which is a great idea, lowers your cost if you're a businessperson, but it's like a Band-Aid on this gaping wound of distrust. States with extensive tort reform still suffer all these pathologies.
Video examples
Isaac Lidsky: What...
In your career and personal life, in your relationships, and in your heart and soul, your backwards-swimming fish do you great harm. They exact a toll in missed opportunities and unrealized potential, and they engender insecurity and distrust where you seek fulfillment and connection.
Video examples
Flat Earth vs. Round...
to believe that the world is flat and you know it's more than just distrust and government it's this notion that thousands of years of empirical scientific evidence is now being dismissed as a mere conspiracy and that's where I think it really starts getting dangerous for all of us
Video examples
Sahaj Kaur Kohli: Why...
So, you know, the thing about chronic guilt is that it can force us to be small. It can tell us we must stay within the box. We shouldn't take up a lot of space. It kind of encourages us to distrust our own needs and wants, especially if they differ from the people around us
Video examples
Take the Money... and...
how many of you have heard the phrase if it's too good to be true it probably is wise words to live by right what if we set up an experiment where that wasn't the case when people's distrust keep
Video examples
How deepfakes undermine...
So deepfakes can exploit and magnify the deep distrust that we already have in politicians, business leaders and other influential leaders. They find an audience primed to believe them.
Video examples
First Look: The Long...
I am constantly having to choose where my allegiances lie. Jassim? Sir? Take it. Sir, you cannot give him a weapon. Some of the soldiers distrust my character
Video examples
Living Among Wolves PIPE...
a relationship with wolves is so full of fear and distrust but it doesn't need to
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Quote examples
Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
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Barack Obama
American President
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
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Geoff Mulgan
English Educator
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.
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Stephen King
Author
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
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Henry L. Stimson
American Statesman
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
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Robert Winston
British Scientist
I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Katharine Viner
British Journalist
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Dalai Lama
Tibetan Leader
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
Quote examples
Geoff Mulgan
English Educator
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.
Quote examples
Stephen King
Author
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
Quote examples
Henry L. Stimson
American Statesman
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
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Robert Winston
British Scientist
I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.
Quote examples
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Quote examples
Katharine Viner
British Journalist
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
Quote examples
H. L. Mencken
American Writer
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Quote examples
Dalai Lama
Tibetan Leader
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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