Distrustful Definition

dĭs-trŭstfəl
adjective
Feeling or showing doubt.
American Heritage
Distrusting; doubting.
Webster's New World

Marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious.

Wiktionary
Causing or giving rise to distrust.
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Distrustful

  • distrustful of

Origin of Distrustful

  • From distrust +‎ -ful.

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Distrustful Sentence Examples

  • I realize in these pages I must seem very distrustful of government, but it is not really true.

  • I am deeply distrustful of people who don't take care of themselves.

  • Ferdinand was by temperament melancholy, shy and distrustful of his own abilities.

  • France remained cold, while Bismarck and Kalnky, distrustful of the Radicalism of Depretis and Mancini, assumed towards their ally an.

  • Too distrustful to delegate his responsibility to his ministers, he was too infirm of will to strike out and follow a consistent course for himself.

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