All 12 Uses
mistrust
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- 'It goes against me,' Rachael answered, in a gentler manner, 'to mistrust any one; but when I am so mistrusted — when we all are — I cannot keep such things quite out of my mind.†
Chpt 3.4 *mistrusted = didn't trust or have confidence in
- 'The better I know it to be so believed there, my dear,' said Rachael, 'and the kinder I feel it that you come away from there, purposely to comfort me, and keep me company, and be seen wi' me when I am not yet free from all suspicion myself, the more grieved I am that I should ever have spoken those mistrusting words to the young lady.†
Chpt 3.5mistrusting = lacking trust or confidence in
- It was further agreed that he should not present himself to Mr. Sleary, lest his intentions should be mistrusted, or the intelligence of his arrival should cause his son to take flight anew; but, that the communication should be left to Sissy and Louisa to open; and that they should inform the cause of so much misery and disgrace, of his father's being at hand and of the purpose for which they had come.†
Chpt 3.7mistrusted = didn't trust or have confidence in
- He spoke with the rugged earnestness of his place and character deepened perhaps by a proud consciousness that he was faithful to his class under all their mistrust; but he fully remembered where he was, and did not even raise his voice.†
Chpt 2.5
- When I consider your character; when I consider that what has been known to me for hours, has been concealed by you for years; when I consider under what immediate pressure it has been forced from you at last; I come to the conclusion that I cannot but mistrust myself.'†
Chpt 3.1
- 'But,' said Mr. Gradgrind, slowly, and with hesitation, as well as with a wretched sense of happiness, 'if I see reason to mistrust myself for the past, Louisa, I should also mistrust myself for the present and the future.†
Chpt 3.1
- 'But,' said Mr. Gradgrind, slowly, and with hesitation, as well as with a wretched sense of happiness, 'if I see reason to mistrust myself for the past, Louisa, I should also mistrust myself for the present and the future.†
Chpt 3.1
- I have not supposed so; but, as I have said, I mistrust myself now.†
Chpt 3.1
- 'It goes against me,' Rachael answered, in a gentler manner, 'to mistrust any one; but when I am so mistrusted — when we all are — I cannot keep such things quite out of my mind.†
Chpt 3.4
- And yet I —' 'You don't mistrust her now, Rachael?'†
Chpt 3.5
- I can't think who 'tis, I can't think how or why it may be done, but I mistrust that some one has put Stephen out of the way.†
Chpt 3.5
- I mistrust that by his coming back of his own accord, and showing himself innocent before them all, some one would be confounded, who — to prevent that — has stopped him, and put him out of the way.'†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
to lack trust or confidence