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I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.
Jon Carroll

Meaning of "untrustworthy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNTRUSTWORTHY

untrustworthy  [ʌnˈtrʌstˌwɜːðɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNTRUSTWORTHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Untrustworthy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNTRUSTWORTHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of untrustworthy in the English dictionary

The definition of untrustworthy in the dictionary is not worthy of being trusted.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNTRUSTWORTHY


airworthy
ˈɛəˌwɜːðɪ
blameworthy
ˈbleɪmˌwɜːðɪ
crashworthy
ˈkræʃˌwɜːðɪ
creditworthy
ˈkrɛdɪtˌwɜːðɪ
cringe-making
ˈkrɪndʒˌwɜːðɪ
cringeworthy
ˈkrɪndʒˌwɜːðɪ
Galsworthy
ˈɡɔːlzˌwɜːðɪ
hateworthy
ˈheɪtˌwɜːðɪ
laughworthy
ˈlɑːfˌwɜːðɪ
newsworthy
ˈnjuːzˌwɜːðɪ
noteworthy
ˈnəʊtˌwɜːðɪ
praiseworthy
ˈpreɪzˌwɜːðɪ
quoteworthy
ˈkwəʊtˌwɜːðɪ
roadworthy
ˈrəʊdˌwɜːðɪ
seaworthy
ˈsiːˌwɜːðɪ
shameworthy
ˈʃeɪmˌwɜːðɪ
sightworthy
ˈsaɪtˌwɜːðɪ
trustworthy
ˈtrʌstˌwɜːðɪ
unpraiseworthy
ʌnˈpreɪzˌwɜːðɪ
unroadworthy
ʌnˈrəʊdˌwɜːðɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNTRUSTWORTHY

untrim
untrod
untrodden
untroubled
untroubledly
untrue
untrueness
untruism
untruly
untruss
untrusser
untrust
untrustful
untrustiness
untrustworthily
untrusty
untruth
untruthful
untruthfully
untruthfulness

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNTRUSTWORTHY

earthy
faithworthy
forthy
Horthy
McCarthy
nameworthy
riverworthy
swarthy
thankworthy
unnewsworthy
unseaworthy
unworthy
worthy

Synonyms and antonyms of untrustworthy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNTRUSTWORTHY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «untrustworthy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of untrustworthy

Translation of «untrustworthy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNTRUSTWORTHY

Find out the translation of untrustworthy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of untrustworthy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «untrustworthy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

靠不住的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poco fiable
570 millions of speakers

English

untrustworthy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेईमान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير جدير بالثقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ненадежный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indigno de confiança
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবিশ্বাসযোগ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indigne de confiance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak boleh dipercayai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unseriös
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

信用できない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신뢰할 수없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Untrustworthy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không đáng tin cậy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நம்பிக்கைக்குரியதாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अविश्वसनीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güvenilmez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inaffidabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nierzetelne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ненадійний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nedemn de încredere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναξιόπιστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbetroubaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

opålitliga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

upålitelige
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of untrustworthy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTRUSTWORTHY»

The term «untrustworthy» is regularly used and occupies the 60.693 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTRUSTWORTHY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about untrustworthy

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4 QUOTES WITH «UNTRUSTWORTHY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word untrustworthy.
1
Jon Carroll
I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.
2
Paul Haggis
I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?
3
Mohsin Hamid
It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.
4
Henry L. Stimson
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTRUSTWORTHY»

Discover the use of untrustworthy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to untrustworthy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Trust Rules: How to Tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys in ...
—Samuel Browner, Chairman, President, and CEO, Tortuous, Inc.1 Browner's experience shows that, when forced to work, live, or otherwise share our lives in some way with someone who is untrustworthy, we must first never forget with whom ...
Linda K. Stroh, 2007
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Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: 5th International ...
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Number of requests (*1,000) 10% untrustworthy file and liars 30% untrustworthy file and liars 50% untrustworthy file and liars 70% untrustworthy file and liars 80% untrustworthy file  ...
Sam Joseph, Zoran Despotovic, Moro Gianluca, 2008
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Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure
Specifically, we first divide the network into a set of zones, establish trust levels for each zone, and detect untrustworthy zones by using the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) [27]. The SPRT decides a zone to be untrustworthy if the ...
Sajal K. Das, Krishna Kant, Nan Zhang, 2012
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Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings ...
Alexander Todorov, Susan Fiske, Deborah Prentice. Trustworthy end face Trustworthy end face Untrustworthy end face Untrustworthy end face Fig. 4–5 Valence ratings of emotional expressions as a function of the type of emotion, the  ...
Alexander Todorov, Susan Fiske, Deborah Prentice, 2011
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Managing Politics at Work: The Essential Toolkit for ...
It's working with those people who are untrustworthy, those whose trust- worthiness is not proven, or those who you suspect might prove untrustworthy in the future that is likely to take up your headspace and concern you. Let me remind you of ...
Aryanne Oade, 2009
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The Manager's Handbook for Corporate Security: Establishing ...
Untrustworthy employees can harm a company in many ways. Theft of assets ( e.g., IWC proprietary information) and fraudulent or unethical behavior are some of the ways untrustworthy employees can damage a company. But IWC is not ...
Gerald L. Kovacich, Edward P. Halibozek, 2003
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Visions of Compassion : Western Scientists and Tibetan ...
perfectly indistinguishable, interactions would occur on a random basis and the average payoffs would be larger for the untrustworthy types (owing to the dominance of the defect strategy in all prisoner's dilemmas). Given the ecological rule ...
and Director of Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience at the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior University of Wisconsin Richard J. Davidson William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Madison, Anne Harrington Professor of History of Science Harvard University, 2001
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Aftereffects in face processing:
FIGURE 5| Trustworthiness discrimination thresholds for a trustworthy female face (40) following adaptation to a trustworthy female face (40), an untrustworthy female face (80), and no adaptation. Error bars denote ± SEM. Asterisk denote a  ...
Peter J. Hills, 2014
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Advanced Agent Technology: AAMAS Workshops 2011, AMPLE, ...
Some stereotypes about emergency conditions and the resulting untrustworthy medical team descriptions. These stereotypes are defined using DL in the local ontology of the hospital. Stereotype Untrustworthy Team Description Medical staff  ...
Francien Dechesne, Hiromitsu Hattori, Adriaan ter Mors, 2012
10
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Untrustworthy,. Unbelievable,. and. Disliked? When you think about it, the professional propagandist has a difficult task. We commonly respond to persuasive messages by questioning the speaker's bias and noting how his or her self- interest ...
Anthony R. Pratkanis, Anthony Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNTRUSTWORTHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term untrustworthy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Airbnb reviews are untrustworthy, user claims
Airbnb reviews are untrustworthy, user claims. An Airbnb customer has said that he cannot trust the site as he was prevented from posting a review about a dirty ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
In Court, Your Face Could Determine Your Fate
Individuals who are deemed to have untrustworthy faces are significantly more likely to be on death row compared with other people convicted of murder, ... «NPR, Jul 15»
3
Iran leader: Some powers 'untrustworthy' on nuclear deal
DUBAI The text of a nuclear deal reached between Iran and world powers should be carefully scrutinized and legal procedures taken so the other side does not ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
4
'Bitchy resting face' makes you untrustworthy - and here's the …
Having a 'bitchy resting face' makes other people think you are untrustworthy, according to a new study. Bitchy resting face is when a person's natural ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
5
Hillary Clinton Takes Stance as the Untrustworthy Candidate Who …
As poll watchers are aware, Hillary Clinton is doing poorly in polls which rate her honesty. A piece published Wednesday by Time magazine suggests her ... «Breitbart News, Jun 15»
6
Your Bitchy Resting Face Makes People Think You're Untrustworthy
New research published in the journal Personal and Social Psychology Bulletin has shown that people tend to think that a bitchy resting face means you're ... «The Frisky, Jun 15»
7
POLL: Hillary Clinton dishonest, untrustworthy
Nearly 6 in 10 think Hillary Clinton is dishonest and untrustworthy, a new poll finds. In just two months, the number of people who say Hillary can't be trusted has ... «Washington Times, Jun 15»
8
Pirates Are Untrustworthy Partners
Your editorial “The Pirates of Tehran” (April 29) correctly points out the futility of continuing to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran. The April 28 incident in the Strait ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
9
Majority of voters think Hillary is untrustworthy: poll
A majority of US voters — 54 percent — say Hillary Clinton is not honest or trustworthy according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. Only 38 ... «New York Post, Apr 15»
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Polls show majority in swing states see Hillary Clinton as …
On the day Hillary Clinton announced her run for president, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus tried to hang an "untrustworthy" label on ... «PolitiFact, Apr 15»

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