All 8 Uses
mistrust
in
Lord Jim
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- That, to tell you the truth, was the only danger I could see for him and for me; but I also mistrusted my want of imagination.†
Chpt 21 *mistrusted = didn't trust or have confidence in
- He had to inspire with his own confidence a lot of people who had hidden and absurd reasons to hang back; he had to conciliate imbecile jealousies, and argue away all sorts of senseless mistrusts.†
Chpt 26mistrusts = lacks trust or confidence
- She mistrusted his very slumbers—and she seemed to think I could tell her why!†
Chpt 33mistrusted = didn't trust or have confidence in
- '"You always mistrusted him," I said.†
Chpt 37
- He had never in his life made a mistake, never had an accident, never a mishap, never a check in his steady rise, and he seemed to be one of those lucky fellows who know nothing of indecision, much less of self-mistrust.†
Chpt 6
- Frankly, it is not my words that I mistrust but your minds.†
Chpt 21
- 'It is evident that he did not mistrust Brown; there was no reason to doubt the story, whose truth seemed warranted by the rough frankness, by a sort of virile sincerity in accepting the morality and the consequences of his acts.†
Chpt 43
- But if Jim did not mistrust Brown, he was evidently anxious that some misunderstanding should not occur, ending perhaps in collision and bloodshed.†
Chpt 43
Definition:
to lack trust or confidence