mistrust
/mɪsˈtɹʌst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Britans marching out againſt them, and miſtruſting thir own power, ſend to Germanus and his Collegue, repoſing more in the ſpiritual ſtrength of thoſe two men, than in thir own thouſands arm’d."
- "He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways."
- "It is most strange to report what outragious acts […] haue beene committed […] by women especially, that will runne after their husbands into all places, all companies, as Iouianus Pontanus wife did by him, follow him whether soeuer hee goes, it matters not, or vpon what businesse, rauing […] , cursing, swearing, and mistrusting euery one she sees."
- "The innocent beauty of her face was not as innocent to me as it had been; I mistrusted the natural grace and charm of her manner […]"
- "It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations."
- "[…] I propheſie, that many a thouſand, Which now miſtruſt no parcell of my feare, And many an old mans ſighe, and many a Widdowes, And many an Orphans water-ſtanding-eye, Men for their Sonnes, Wiues for their Husbands, Orphans, for their Parents timeles death, Shall rue the houre that euer thou was’t borne."
Etymology
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Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
mistrusts (plural)
mistrusts (present, singular)
mistrusting (participle, present)
mistrusted (participle, past)
mistrusted (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
mistrusted (first person, past)
mistrustest (archaic, present)
mistrusted (past, second person)
mistrustedst (archaic, past)
mistrusteth (archaic, present)