untrustworthy person

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In his 1941 book, The Mask of Sanity, the influential US psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley set out the personality profile of a psychopath: a superficially charming but egocentric and untrustworthy person who conceals an antisocial core.

From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2023

Knox, now 34 and working as a criminal justice activist, said that the movie "reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person."

From Reuters • Jul. 30, 2021

"By fictionalising away my innocence, my total lack of involvement, by erasing the role of the authorities in my wrongful conviction, McCarthy reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person," she wrote.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2021

You’re not telling him he’s a bad or untrustworthy person or demanding that he never register attraction for another human being again—you’re just telling him how you felt.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016

"I've owned up and you ought to congratulate yourself on so luckily getting rid of such an untrustworthy person as I."

From The Great God Success by Phillips, David Graham