trustless
Americanadjective
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not worthy of trust; faithless; unreliable; false.
He was trustless when money was involved.
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distrustful; suspicious.
a doorman trustless of all strangers.
adjective
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untrustworthy; deceitful
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distrusting; wary; suspicious
Other Word Forms
- trustlessly adverb
- trustlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of trustless
Example Sentences
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What we found is this whole mantra of a trustless economy, we shouldn’t have trusted many of these new actors.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2022
As the authors concluded in the paper: “Although Bitcoin was designed to rely on a decentralized, trustless network of anonymous agents, its early success rested instead on cooperation among a small group of altruistic founders.”
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2022
You have to use a lot of power to run a global trustless computer and database, and you need a lot of computers verifying the transactions, validating transactions, mining coins, and so on.
From The Verge • Apr. 12, 2022
Ben Horowitz joins Slate Money to talk about Jackie Brown and the trustless economy of Tarantino’s quiet movie.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2022
I cannot bear that any uncertain, trustless person should come in here.
From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
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