Synonyms for untrustworthy
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Unreliable
unreliable, slippery, deceitful, shifty, treacherous, insincere, inaccurate, false, faithless, dishonest, perfidious
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not deserving of trust; unreliable.
Example sentences
- slippery The way, sodden with rain, was extremely slippery.
- unreliable Your only source of income has become unreliable.
- deceitful I learned the hard way that silence can be deceitful.
- shifty He's a shifty character and I don't trust him one bit.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| untrustworthy | rising | |
| slippery | rising | |
| unreliable | steady | |
| deceitful | rising | |
| shifty | rising | |
| untrusty | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- weak1
- 5 letters
- false1
- 6 letters
- shifty2
- 8 letters
- slippery3, untrusty
- 9 letters
- dishonest3, deceitful3, insincere3, faithless
- 10 letters
- inaccurate4, unreliable5, perfidious
- 11 letters
- treacherous3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (shifty2 = 2 syllables).