Word: distruster
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Mistrust. What they are charged with is (among other things) a lack of faith. They all have the same insincerity, the same distrust of anyone else's sincerity. They have the same raw ambition, the same bitter kiss-my-foot contempt for each other. They all have the same childish fretfulness of mind...
Though no one said so openly, the sponsors of "journals-for-export" (see above) were moved by the American's abiding distrust of Government-controlled news. If they needed grounds for their distrust, they now had a good example...
...Lorent worked for social reform with the Communists before the war. During the Resistance, he began to distrust them; now he hates them, and they hate...
More than a year as an investigator of German cartels gives Bernstein his background for asserting the danger of giving economic encouragement to industry in the defeated country. He is expected to stress the distrust that this would engender in such nations as France...
Abraham Lincoln distrusted biographies and seldom read them. His son, Robert T, Lincoln, shared his distrust; he included in it the biographers of his father. He seldom gave them help and never encouragement. As a result, when Lincoln scholars recently scrambled to Washington to see the Lincolniana that had been ordered sealed until 21 years after Robert's death they found few surprises and no answers to some of the major questions abou Abraham Lincoln's life...