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Noun mistrust has 2 senses
- misgiving, mistrust, distrust, suspicion - doubt about someone's honesty
--1 is a kind of doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness
- distrust, distrustfulness, mistrust - the trait of not trusting others
--2 is a kind of trait
--2 has particulars: suspicion, suspiciousness
Verb mistrust has 1 sense
- distrust, mistrust, suspect - regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
--1 is one way to disbelieve, discredit
Antonyms: trust, swear, rely, bank
Sample sentence:
They want to mistrust the prisoners
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