"total mistrust" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe extreme suspicion or uncertainty between two or more parties. For example: "The two partners had total mistrust for each other, so their business relationship was doomed from the start."
A climate of total "mistrust" had led to a state of "completely ruined relations," Medvedev declared.
Where once there was total mistrust between law-enforcement authorities in the two countries, now there is active co-operation, at the top at least.The problem, as Mr Fox implies, is that the government's actions have unleashed a turf war between two of the main gangs, one based on the Gulf coast and the other in Sinaloa.
He also said that he believed the Egyptian-mediated channel established between Israel and Hamas for the negotiation could perhaps be used for other deals, and that from a point of total mistrust in April, a fragile mutual trust had been built between the two parties after the Shalit deal.
Some residents even compiled their own totals amid deep mistrust of the government's handling of the disaster.
"We can see that, in this environment, Vietnam's strategic mistrust is total... and they are rapidly improving their defences," said Trevor Hollingsbee, a retired naval intelligence analyst with the Ministry of Defence.
Thus, from earliest infancy, was Saddam nurtured - like a Stalin born into very similar circumstances - in the bleak conviction that the world is a congenitally hostile place, life a ceaseless struggle for survival, and survival only achieved through total self-reliance, chronic mistrust and the imperious necessity to destroy others before they destroy you.
In Guinea, where there were 95 new cases in the second week of March, the highest weekly total so far in 2015, mistrust of health workers is still a problem, he added.
This number represents only half of the total Jewish population, reflecting the community's mistrust of the organization, but it was the figure that Adolf Eichmann presented as the total number of Jews in Belgium at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942.
Further, the total survey response rate was 62%, which we view as acceptable, considering a common mistrust against authorities among prison inmates.
According to Forbes magazine, total giving by China's top 100 philanthropists plunged by 41% in response, mirroring wider social mistrust in state institutions.
Even as Franklin Roosevelt, in his fourth and final inaugural, called for "total victory in war," he warned that "we can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust — or with fear".
