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
The realization bent her slender figure under a load of self-reproach and self-mistrust.
From Told in a French Garden August, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich
It was as if, in her fear and self-mistrust, she put too much strength into the effort.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Till the latter end of last autumn, I never experienced these feelings of self-mistrust, which ever since have embittered my existence.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
