The phrase "undercurrent of mistrust" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a hidden or subtle feeling of mistrust or suspicion that runs beneath the surface of a situation or relationship. Here is an example sentence using this phrase: Despite their friendly interactions, there was an undercurrent of mistrust between the two business partners, leading to a tense and uneasy atmosphere during meetings.
Will is a blithe, cheery leader: in his hands the music, sincere beyond all reason, is the perfect antidote to the sinister undercurrent of mistrust that runs throughout the series.
Some Arab analysts have sounded more informed warnings, fretting that a truncated northern Sudan could become an Islamist police state and that the impoverished South may soon relapse into internal strife.Still, an undercurrent of mistrust and paranoia, exacerbated by a widespread ignorance of Sudan's geography and history, tends to infuse Arabs' misunderstanding of the country.
This situation did little to relieve the undercurrents of mistrust that circulated among the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the United States.
Into the vacuum left by the missing weapons have swirled all the demons of political combat unleashed by what promises to be an extraordinarily bitter election campaign driven by powerful undercurrents of mistrust and fear.
Though not often explicit in objections to postmenopausal motherhood, the undercurrent of the mistrust of such reproductive projects because of the lack of the genetic link between mother and child has been very pervasive in media reports.
In November of last year I penned an op-ed calling on the president to appoint a modern-day equivalent of the Kerner Commission, a national panel to investigate the breadth and depth of the undercurrent of anger and mistrust in the poorer and mostly black communities that is erupting with greater frequency.
It is the sense of mistrust".
"There is a lot of mistrust.
Still, old habits of mistrust die hard.
You have a democracy of mistrust".
This is the media age of mistrust.
