distrusted
/dɪstɹˈʌstəd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.48 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
verb
simple past and past participle of distrust
Example Sentences
- "I examine some famous environmental 'disasters', a very distrusted chemical (chlorine), and some favourite environmental panaceas."
- "There is, as a matter of fact, a movement toward the scientific idea of knowledge in all this that slowly begins to eclipse the confidence in the integrated "judgment of sense" of the human being; where feelings and emotive powers become more and more distrusted by Catholic philosophers and theologians, as the Protestants begin to enshrine the subjective response to religion."
- "The most distrusted organizations are those that appear inauthentic."