untrustworthier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Only if they begin with un- are they likely to end in -er, as in ‘untrustworthier’.
ref: [1994, “comparison of adjectives”, in New English Dictionary and Thesaurus, New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset, →ISBN, page 897, column 2:
text: In the May 1995 Word Ways, Darryl Francis gave examples of words having every numerical score from 1 (a) to 248 (superstitiously), and challenged readers to come up with a word scoring 249. Leonard Gordon suggested pyknodysostotics, pericardiomediastinitis, electroencephalographers, hexanitrodiphenylamine, hyperprothrombinaemia, photoroentgenographic, mercaptobenzothiazole and chemopallidothalamectomy, all but the first and last in Webster's Second or Third or inferrable from it. Richard Sabey noted superinstitution in Webster's Second. Susan Thorpe added inauthoritativeness, reconstructiveness and photosynthesizing from the OED. Sir Jeremy Morse suggested zoophysiologists (inferred from the Funk & Wagnalls unabridged word zoophysiology) and the inferred word untrustworthier.
ref: [1995 August, “Extending Francis”, in Word Ways, volume 28, number 3, page 151:
text: Who is sneakier, untrustworthier, and all round more devious that the newest oxymoron, the "Clinton Justice Department"?
ref: 1999 January 26, Docky Wocky [pseudonym], “Big Brother loses one”, in alt.current-events.clinton (Usenet):
text: On the day he wrote it William was in ‘a low, desponding, and queer state’. ‘I can’t describe my feelings,’ he said, but he had suicide in mind. The sharp instrument was ready for that purpose. ‘I did feel certain that the Devil would come to me that night’, he recalled, but there was no untrustworthier master than the Devil, and he failed to appear and claim his soul.
ref: 2005, Owen Davies, “Dove in the dock”, in Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN, page 103:
text: In the old Cambodian culture before the Khmer Rouge regime, most men had as many wives as they could support. The more power and money they had, the untrustworthier they became.
ref: 2005, Vatey Seng, “Our Drifting Destination”, in The Price We Paid: A Life Experience in the Khmer Rouge Regime, Cambodia, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 58:
text: Morphological comparatives are exceedingly rare with adjectives that have four or more syllables, but note the case of untrustworthier.
ref: [2008 November, Martin Hilpert, “The English comparative – language structure and language use”, in English Language and Linguistics, volume 12, number 3, Cambridge University Press, page 398:
text: They're here from Poland and working illegally. / What, so they should be less loving and untrustworthier? / You mean “less trustworthy.”
ref: 2009, Wallander – Tjuven [The Thief]:
english: The Thief
translation: The Thief
text: Eyewitnesses^([sic]) likelihood of giving false information about any crime in subsequent retellings increases if they had described the offence to someone just after it occurred, according to a new study. The finding attains significance as it suggests that eyewitness accounts of crimes can be untrustworthier than earlier believed.
ref: 2011 January 26, ANI [Asian News International], “Eyewitness accounts aren't as reliable as previously thought”, in Yahoo! News, published 11 February 2011, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2023:
text: The bigger the difference between two components is the untrustworthier the research is (Gutek 2006, 142).
ref: 2014 December, Heli Järvikylä, “Introduction”, in Far at Home - Finnish Emigrants’ Views on Basic Education in Florida, Master’s Thesis, University of Tampere, page 5:
text: Besides being poor in quality, what makes the investigation untrustworthier is the manner through which it was released to the media.
ref: 2015 February 19, Syed Kamran Hashmi, “The MQM suffers media bias”, in Daily Times, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2023:
text: While there is a hint that there may be differences between how valid and invalid faces are remembered, and this would be in line with previous research, it is impossible to tell whether such asymmetries are present when using 2AFC as a measure, as the responses to valid and invalid faces are inherently co-dependent (that is, one cannot select the valid face as being trustworthier than the invalid face without also selecting the invalid faces as being untrustworthier).
ref: 2016 September, James Strachan, “Introduction and literature review”, in Incidental learning of trust from identity-contingent gaze cues: boundaries, extensions and applications, PhD thesis, University of York, via White Rose eTheses Online, EthosID uk.bl.ethos.701471, page 40:
glosses: comparative form of untrustworthy: more untrustworthy