mistrustnoun/mɪsˈtɹʌst/

• 1

  Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust.

mistrustverb/mɪsˈtɹʌst/

• 1

  To have no confidence in (something or someone).

  • The Britans marching out againſt them, and miſtruſting thir own power, ſend to Germanus and his Collegue, repoſing more in the ſpiritual ſtrength of thoſe two men, than in thir own thouſands arm’d.
  • He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways.
• 2

  To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone).

  • It is most strange to report what outragious acts […] haue beene committed […] by women especially, that will runne after their husbands into all places, all companies, as Iouianus Pontanus wife did by him, follow him whether soeuer hee goes, it matters not, or vpon what businesse, rauing […] , cursing, swearing, and mistrusting euery one she sees.
  • The innocent beauty of her face was not as innocent to me as it had been; I mistrusted the natural grace and charm of her manner […]
• 3

  To suspect, to imagine or suppose (something) to be the case.

  • […] I propheſie, that many a thouſand, Which now miſtruſt no parcell of my feare, And many an old mans ſighe, and many a Widdowes, And many an Orphans water-ſtanding-eye, Men for their Sonnes, Wiues for their Husbands, Orphans, for their Parents timeles death, Shall rue the houre that euer thou was’t borne.
  • As soon as it was dark enough to conceal our Flight, we assembl’d together, and took a considerable Quantity of Muslins and Callicoes, and hung them upon the Bushes, that the Spies, who we knew watch’d us, might not any ways mistrust our sudden Removal.
• 4

  To be suspicious.

  • She wuz soft in her complexion, her lips, her cheeks, her hands, and as I mistrusted at that first minute, and found out afterwards, soft in her head too.
  • And yes, she has long mistrusted That a cider apple tree In bearing there to-day is hers, Or at least may be.