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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mistrust .
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Examples
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There is a certain sort of person who hates and mistrusts anything popular.
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Labour mistrusts him because he is popular, and they fear he might be re-elected mayor of London.
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The administration said the differing recommendations doesn't mean the U.S. mistrusts information coming from the Japanese.
U.S. Sees Reactor Crisis Lasting Weeks Jared A. Favole 2011
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But it succeeded in neither: Karzai has not improved governance in Afghanistan; instead, he now mistrusts Washington.
Vanda Felbab-Brown: Implications of the Assassinations of Prominent Politicians in Afghanistan Vanda Felbab-Brown 2011
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MMMMMMM 80% mistrusts the Government, and 62% feel they are paying the right amount of tax ` s to pay for this big government.
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While Egypt has traditionally hosted Palestinian unity talks, Hamas deeply mistrusts Cairo and is greatly dependent on Damascus.
Alon Ben-Meir: Syria Reasserts Its Centrality to Peace Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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They have to do it with mountains of mistrusts between Sunnis and Shia, and not to mention the Kurds.
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(As for India, it has less to fear from a reasonably well-armed, confident Pakistani army that has strong ties to the U.S. than it does from a poorly armed Pakistan that mistrusts the U.S. and continues to consort with jihadists as a way of compensating for its weakness.)
The Pakistan Paradox Bret Stephens 2010
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While Egypt has traditionally hosted Palestinian unity talks, Hamas deeply mistrusts Cairo and is greatly dependent on Damascus.
Alon Ben-Meir: Syria Reasserts Its Centrality to Peace Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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A businessman must eat local, or deal with suspicions that he fears and mistrusts the stuff that made his partners.
Fare Play Around The World Quentin Hardy 2011
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