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TRUSTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of persons) worthy of trust or confidence
Example:
a sure (or trusted) friend
Synonyms:
sure; trusted
Classified under:
Similar:
trustworthy; trusty (worthy of trust or belief)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb trust
Context examples:
I did not think Mrs. Gardiner was so little to be trusted.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Jekyll,” said Utterson, “you know me: I am a man to be trusted. Make a clean breast of this in confidence; and I make no doubt I can get you out of it.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And yet I would have trusted him as I trust myself.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“For I have formed a good opinion of you, and can see that you are one who may be trusted,” said the Lady Loring.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You’re not to be trusted on the box until you can handle your whip better’n that.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I did think I could have trusted Hands,” added the captain.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She would trust her mother's judgment in this as she had always trusted it in all things.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He changed his appearance as far as he could, and trusted that the likeness, which you could not fail to observe, would be put down to a family resemblance.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He left us a list of the securities he was taking, and he swore that he would come back with his honour cleared, and that none who had trusted him would suffer.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The January 10 eclipse also may bring changes at the office with a trusted subordinate suddenly leaving.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
