Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not worthy of trust; unfaithful; delusive; treacherous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful.
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- adjective Lacking
trust ;untrusting . - adjective
Untrustworthy ; not deserving to be trusted.
Etymologies
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Examples
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How many of the trustless are willing to work the new machine?
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Wrote Emerson: "Yes, we are the cowed, -- we, the trustless."
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The information we have received for so long has proven to be trustless and malignant on all sides.
Think Progress » “The real victims of Fox News weren’t the liberals 2006
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Three years of repeated contradictions, distortions, and stonewalling from this Administration has worn-out public trustless.
The Credibility Gap 2006
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Those two faces looking out of the forest of long hair, moustache, and whisker — those two cold yet bold, trustless yet presumptuous visages — were the same faces, the very same that, projected in full gaslight from behind the pillars of a portico, had half frightened me to death on the night of my desolate arrival in Villette.
Villette 2003
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Thus, O king, they lived (in that mansion) very guardedly, deceiving Purochana by a show of trustfulness and contentment while in reality they were trustless and discontented.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Thus, O king, they lived (in that mansion) very guardedly, deceiving Purochana by a show of trustfulness and contentment while in reality they were trustless and discontented.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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I only lay bare the barrenness of its nature and the trustless reserve that always made the world around me seem wrapped in
The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera
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While trustless chance me with vain favours crowned,
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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They were cunning and trustless, narrow - slitted and heavy-lidded, at one and the same time as sharp as a ferret's and as indolent as a basking lizard's.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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