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# mistrust

«mistrust» in Mova's school dictionary: **a feeling that someone cannot be trusted or that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural); verb (mistrusts, mistrusted, mistrusting)

### meaning for a pupil

Mistrust is a feeling that someone cannot be trusted or that something is not safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistrust/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a feeling between characters that leads to quarrels and unhappiness in the story

### examples

- There was mistrust between the two brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistrust/#x1)
- The villagers had mistrust of the stranger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistrust/#x2)
- Do not mistrust your friends without reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistrust/#x3)
- His mistrust made it hard to make peace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistrust/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mistrust» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistrust/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.