Untrustworthier

Only if they begin with un- are they likely to end in -er, as in ‘untrustworthier’.

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.

Who is sneakier, untrustworthier, and all round more devious that the newest oxymoron, the "Clinton Justice Department"?

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.

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.

Morphological comparatives are exceedingly rare with adjectives that have four or more syllables, but note the case of untrustworthier.

They're here from Poland and working illegally. / What, so they should be less loving and untrustworthier? / You mean “less trustworthy.”

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.

The bigger the difference between two components is the untrustworthier the research is (Gutek 2006, 142).

Besides being poor in quality, what makes the investigation untrustworthier is the manner through which it was released to the media.