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Mistrustful   /mɪstrˈəstfəl/  /mɪstrˈəsfəl/   Listen
Mistrustful

adjective
1.
Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.  Synonyms: leery, suspicious, untrusting, wary.






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"Mistrustful" Quotes from Famous Books



... when you speak to her of him, she smiles and does not reply. You claim that she has reflected; that time and absence have wrought their effect. 'Out of sight, out of mind,' you say. Take care! I am more mistrustful than you. Are you very sure that Antoinette ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez

... achieved by this was to exasperate; and his expulsion from a society grown mistrustful of him must already have followed but for his friend, Philippe de Vilmorin, a divinity student of Rennes, who, himself, was one of the most popular ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... I the time hang much heavier than the prince; for at first mistrustful, like yourself, that the reconnaissance into which he had beguiled me was a mere pretext, I was not sorry to ascertain, sigh by sigh, and word by word, the grounds on which he stood with the enemy. And you should ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI. • Various



Words linked to "Mistrustful" :   untrusting, wary, distrustful



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