mistrust
noun
lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
self-mistrust
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a word derived from
mistrust.
Example Sentences
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Wideman’s narrators “remain in close emotional contact with the cringing, the alienation, the clowning, the wariness, the self-mistrust and self-satire that came with growing up poor and Black in Pittsburgh,” our critic Dwight Garner writes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021
But they remain in close emotional contact with the cringing, the alienation, the clowning, the wariness, the self-mistrust and self-satire that came with growing up poor and Black in Pittsburgh.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Such anguish may partake of various characters, having sometimes more the quality of loathing; sometimes that of irritation and exasperation; or again of self-mistrust and self-despair; or of suspicion, anxiety, trepidation, fear.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
The countryside in Ireland could blossom into as much beauty as the hillsides in mediaeval Italy if we could but get rid of our self-mistrust.
From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell
His personality was being developed by new experience, and as he was very simple he received the initiation with shyness and self-mistrust.
From The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad
