UNTRUSTWORTHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untrustworthy mean? 

• UNTRUSTWORTHY (adjective)
  The adjective UNTRUSTWORTHY has 1 sense:

1. not worthy of trust or belief

  Familiarity information: UNTRUSTWORTHY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTRUSTWORTHY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not worthy of trust or belief

Synonyms:

untrustworthy; untrusty

Context example:

an untrustworthy person

Similar:

devious; shifty (characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive)

fly-by-night ((of businesses and businessmen) untrustworthy or undependable)

slippery; tricky (not to be trusted)

Also:

undependable; unreliable (not worthy of reliance or trust)

unfaithful (not true to duty or obligation or promises)

dishonest; dishonorable (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)

Antonym:

trustworthy (worthy of trust or belief)

Derivation:

untrustworthiness (the trait of not deserving trust or confidence)

 Context examples 

“It is certainly a little untrustworthy,” said Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I may say that a good many of these papers have come through me, and I need not add are thoroughly untrustworthy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)