"bred mistrust" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that mistrust has been created, instilled, or developed over time. For example: "Years of broken promises have bred mistrust among the group."
His fascination with tactics, his past as a Rockefeller Republican and his grandiose statements bred mistrust.
The lack of open communication has bred mistrust on both sides, especially since the summer's tour of China.
Because it harbored the nation's creditor class, the financial district inevitability bred mistrust in a small-town, agrarian America populated by millions of debtors.
And the party polarization that has gripped statehouses across the country has stymied attempts to build sensible, effective electoral regulations and bred mistrust.
Dinkins, said the Giuliani administration had abandoned community policing, increased firepower and fumbled minority hiring in a way that bred mistrust among blacks and Latinos.
BRUSSELS — Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the newly elected president of the group of ministers overseeing the euro, said on Monday he wanted to heal the rift over austerity policies that had bred mistrust between southern and northern nations using the currency.
How might this protect or breed mistrust between spouses?
Byrne concluded by saying a radical, or "disruptive" approach might be necessary in order to fix what he sees as a broken system that breeds mistrust and has led to a "rising tide of dissatisfaction".
That is the principle of transparency that I want companies and governments to heed: that openness in their information and actions must become their default, that holding secrets only breeds mistrust and robs them and us of the value that comes from sharing.
It breeds mistrust and triggers overblown concerns.
When anything can be a surprise, it tends to breed mistrust in the audience, and mistrust is the biggest enemy possible of good storytelling.
