distrusted

English

Adjective

distrusted

1. Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
   • 1995, Richard D. North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress, page 6:

     I examine some famous environmental 'disasters', a very distrusted chemical (chlorine), and some favourite environmental panaceas.

   • 1998, James S. Taylor, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, page 108:

     There is, as a matter of fact, a movement toward the scientific idea of knowledge in all this that slowly begins to eclipse the confidence in the integrated "judgment of sense" of the human being; where feelings and emotive powers become more and more distrusted by Catholic philosophers and theologians, as the Protestants begin to enshrine the subjective response to religion.

   • 2022, Ashley Reichheld, The Four Factors of Trust, page 66:

     The most distrusted organizations are those that appear inauthentic.

Derived terms

• undistrusted

Verb

distrusted

1. simple past and past participle of distrust