DISTRUSTED Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

distrusted

verb

past tense of distrust

as in doubted

to have no trust or confidence in we instinctively distrust those phone calls that tell us we have won a free vacation or car

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Recent Examples of distrusted Both sides showed a mirror-image majority who distrusted the other. — Dahlia Scheindlin, Time, 7 Oct. 2026 These small transgressions added up to a sense of ourselves as special, exempt from the rules—but also disliked, distrusted, untrustworthy, apart. — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026 The men who wrote the Constitution distrusted parties, but also created and worked within them. — Andy Craig, Washington Post, 15 July 2026 That change feeds a French argument over air conditioning, still distrusted by many in much of Europe — dismissed as wasteful or unecological. — ABC News, 26 June 2026 Ivermectin became an ideological flashpoint during the COVID-19 pandemic, gaining popularity as a treatment for the disease among people who distrusted the vaccines and established medical treatment protocols. — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026 Many Americans feared and distrusted the idea of a standing army into the first half of the nineteenth century. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 25 May 2026 Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Reserve isn’t distrusted so much as unknown. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 19 May 2026 Christine said the nation’s health institutions and policies were broken, and average Americans distrusted healthcare systems. — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 16 May 2026

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The long delay before Davis was charged did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability, DiGiacomo said.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026
Bahdanau quietly doubted their potential to achieve anything like human-level intelligence, but his adviser, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and the postdoc on the project, Kyunghyun Cho, were believers.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

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But on Monday, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likened many of the investors drawn to the AI boom to gamblers and questioned the economics of AI labs as Wall Street debates whether the AI bubble will burst.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The child's mother was taken into custody at the hospital and is being questioned by police, according to the NYPD.

— Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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