0 present participle of distrust
1 to not trust someone or something:
Many politicians are deeply distrusted by the electorate.
It will be useful to polar historians, but also to students of environmental policy more generally and to those seeking reasons for distrusting governments.
On the whole, the economic elites had solid reasons for distrusting a corporatist-style arrangement.
The trusting, on the other hand, gave somewhat more emphasis to majority rule (18 per cent among the trusting, 11 per cent for the distrusting).
While distrusting democracy, they seemed to prefer parliamentary solutions to traditionally inefficient corporatist arrangements, and they only promoted the latter as a check and balance to authoritarian rule.
Taken together, the evidence assembled here strongly suggests that there is a presidential winner-loser effect; presidential winners are more trusting and losers more distrusting of government.
However, there is an especially good reason for distrusting it now.
The sheikhs owe us nothing, and there are many reasons for distrusting them.
It is not so much because you are distrusting those to whom you are granting responsibility that you include the safeguards.
