distrust

Again and again, the young people we speak to express a profound distrust of the police.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The distrust is too bad, the hucksters too loud.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Then, in “The Closing of the American Mind,” Allan Bloom described the educational denouement: universities failing to transmit serious understanding of the Western inheritance while teaching students to distrust its claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“The fact that you’re paying two advisers already shows you have a distrust in the advice system,” Garrett says.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

She sat up and realized that distrust would always lie between them, that disbelief would always be an option for them.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“While we are necessarily moving forward together because of our mutual dependence, each side distrusts the other side’s long-term intentions,” he told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Kashima-san distrusts westerners — her wounds of wartime haven’t healed — and to see Nishio-san smitten with Amélie feels like a betrayal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

As a result, the public distrusts the court system and holds the judicial profession in low regard.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2025

In Ukraine, where polls consistently show that about 95% of the population distrusts Putin, there is a uneasy mix of deep scepticism about the talks and deep fatigue with the war.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025

Unless a group of little girls chanted some especially clever riddle, my mother, who distrusts people with public concerns, braggarts, went over to the quiet older girls with the dignified bows.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Greenspan was considered a “maestro” who read the economy by feel and distrusted mechanical rules.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

David embraced aristocratic country life and distrusted outsiders; Sydney enjoyed London, music and company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

"The trouble is I was spoilt. I was exceptionally lucky that I was the individual he distrusted least," said Mr Smythe, now 83.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025

He distrusted law enforcement and didn’t want to be an informant, he said.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

They’re initially suspicious and distrusting of each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

As a colleague he could be distrusting and wary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

But distrusting the Fed and abandoning the dollar are completely different moves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

"It's no wonder she just ended up distrusting normal institutions - because clearly, something broke within her at some point," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

Maybe something had happened with him, something that made her sad and distrusting of haints.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland