Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - mistrust

(mistrusts, mistrusting, mistrusted) 1. Mistrust is the feeling that you have towards someone who you do not trust. There was mutual mistrust between the two men. ...a deep mistrust of state banks. = distrust N-UNCOUNT 2. If you mistrust someone or something, you do not trust them. It frequently appears that Bell mistrusts all journalists. = distrust VERB: V n