Meanings
- Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
The most distrusted organizations are those that appear inauthentic.
2022, Ashley Reichheld, The Four Factors of Trust, page 662 more examples
I examine some famous environmental 'disasters', a very distrusted chemical (chlorine), and some favourite environmental panaceas.
1995, Richard D. North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress, page 6There 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.
1998, James S. Taylor, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, page 108
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of distrust
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