"deepen distrust" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to make a lack of trust between people or groups even stronger. Example: The recent scandal only served to deepen distrust between the government and its citizens.
"Little potshots," as Johnson called them, deepen distrust, making clear that any talk of peaceful coexistence is only that -- talk.
On the contrary, they have and continue to take demonstrable actions on the ground in ways that only deepen distrust.
On the contrary, they have and continue to engage in hostile public narratives and take demonstrable actions on the ground in ways that only deepen distrust.
Each side's actions reflected a deepening distrust that gets harder to repair with each clash.
Out of it came forty years of occupation, widespread illegal settlements, the intensification of Palestinian nationalism, terrorism, counterattacks, checkpoints, failed negotiations, uprisings, and ever-deepening distrust.
The combination of his work with the underprivileged and his deepening distrust of techno-culture began to coalesce into the first stirrings of "Koyaanisqatsi".
Amid such privations, one of the few things that thrives now in Baghdad, at least, is a deepening distrust and anger toward the United States.
"Amid such privations," Banerjee writes, "one of the few things that thrives now in Baghdad, at least, is a deepening distrust and anger toward the United States".
Behind this effacement, there seems to lurk a deepening distrust in writing itself, a crisis of faith in the ability of words to either capture the essence of a life or else speak truthfully to its essenceless condition.
The talks, in Moscow, are becoming both the latest indication of the troubled state of relations between the White House and the Kremlin and one of the last opportunities for President Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to overcome the deepening distrust that has strained the relationship.
The economic downturn has seen a deepening distrust between the public and the financial sector.
