How to Use untrustworthy in a Sentence

untrustworthy

adjective
  • How did these bots get so creepy, so nasty, so untrustworthy?
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Brady has been untrustworthy in the past, but there's such a genuine deep love there.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
  • To avert one’s gaze can be a sign of shyness or that a person is untrustworthy.
    — Anna Pulley, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • My mom has always been very untrustworthy of the world and the people around her.
    — Teen Vogue, 14 Aug. 2019
  • But when leaders are seen as untrustworthy that number drops to one in twelve.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The river was too untrustworthy to be a showplace for rich men’s homes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Maybe that’s what reads as untrustworthy in shorties, their lack of trust in not being stomped.
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 15 June 2019
  • Be wary and don’t click on untrustworthy messages from unknown senders.
    — Rhett Power, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • There’s a preacher who prays a lot but is kind of untrustworthy and scared of everything.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Oct. 2017
  • If no one told you to watch for something, treat it as untrustworthy until confirmed.
    — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There is this sense that experts are untrustworthy, and have agendas that aren’t aligned with the people.
    — Sheera Frenkel, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Pearl Girls aren’t favored by the Plums, who see them as untrustworthy.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 7 Apr. 2026
  • For Minecraft users, that means steering clear of unknown servers or untrustworthy users.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The poker community is a small world, and if a site is untrustworthy, the word soon spreads.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Those who are untrusting tend to be untrustworthy; those who are fearful should rightly be feared.
    — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Desire is transient; states of mind are fleeting and untrustworthy.
    — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • That person proved to be untrustworthy and posted footage of what in the moment was private and sacred.
    — Sydney Scott, Essence.com, 10 May 2018
  • In his last novel, Bill laments that journalists are craven and untrustworthy.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • That can lead them to seek out untrustworthy practitioners or fall for costly treatments that don’t work.
    — Zhen Wang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2022
  • This is a man, after all, who was deemed untrustworthy by the region’s last two prosecutors.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2025
  • Maybe the handles are loose and untrustworthy, or years of use have created weird hotspots that force you to cook all your food on one half of the pan only.
    — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The journey and long spans of time, however, make their memories a bit untrustworthy.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
  • There are whistle-blowers who are perhaps a little too fond of the drink and thus possibly untrustworthy.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Trying to design around the idea that any member might be untrustworthy makes systems too slow and cumbersome.
    — Joshua Oliver, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2018
  • This was a blatant attempt to suggest that the generals are untrustworthy.
    — Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2024
  • Tori’s still seen by most as untrustworthy, and Chanelle Howard spent the episode on the outside looking in as alliances formed around her.
    — al, 13 Apr. 2022
  • On the other hand, some types of sources such as public relations are rated as untrustworthy in general.
    — Florian Wintterlin, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Sure, Malcolm may actually like Ellen, but there has to be more with the untrustworthy clan.
    — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • One woman, the owner of a grocery, was in custody because her horse-milk supplier had been deemed untrustworthy.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Others dismiss it as overhyped, error-prone and untrustworthy.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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