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untrustworthiness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being untrustworthy.

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  • noun The state or quality of being untrustworthy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the trait of not deserving trust or confidence

Etymologies

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From untrustworthy +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • One of the reasons the MSM gets scored for both bias and untrustworthiness is that it thoughtlessly repeats, over and over, erroneous information simply because reporters just “know” it’s true, so why check it?

    Small is the new big: HR department « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Pakistani leaders have portrayed every such American attempt as a betrayal of Pakistan and stated that Americans do not realize the "untrustworthiness" of the Indians.

    Aparna Pande: Pakistan and the India-US Entente Aparna Pande 2010

  • Pakistani leaders have portrayed every such American attempt as a betrayal of Pakistan and stated that Americans do not realize the "untrustworthiness" of the Indians.

    Aparna Pande: Pakistan and the India-US Entente Aparna Pande 2010

  • Conspiracy theorists' beliefs about the untrustworthiness of official sources, the authors said, are strong enough to override logical problems.

    Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea 2012

  • Perhaps his high notes were supposed to suggest untrustworthiness, but tenor John Duykers sounded dry and strained throughout, and he was unable to produce any creditable tone at all in the upper half of the role's range.

    An All-Too-Bloodless Coup Heidi Waleson 2010

  • And while I find that argument compelling, the inherent untrustworthiness of right wingers and the neoliberal economists who keep telling us that the market will solve everything does make that project – and every other republican idea – suspect.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Persistence of Carbon Tax Advocates 2009

  • But the problems with the cease-fire, and the violations of it, are in no sense reflections of some kind of inherent perfidy either of Arabs generally or Palestinians more specifically or Hamas in particular any more than Israeli incursions indicate a fundamental untrustworthiness of Jews or Israelis or the Kadima Party.

    Matthew Yglesias » Time Machine 2009

  • The assumption, experts say, is that a bad credit report might help flag poor work habits and decision-making, and even general untrustworthiness.

    For Job-Seekers, a New Push to Keep Financial Skeletons Buried AnnaMaria Andriotis 2012

  • The great truism of football dressing rooms is that players disengage from a manager the minute they suspect him of indecision or political inconsistency or even untrustworthiness.

    Fabio Capello risks all by giving John Terry his bark back | Paul Hayward 2011

  • Theoretically, male beauty evokes perceptions of leadership, while female beauty stirs untrustworthiness when their work performance is singled out from a group.

    Cristen Conger: Just How Good Is Too Good Looking in the Workplace? 2010

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