Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having mistrust; wanting trust or confidence; suspicious; doubting: as, a mistrustful spirit.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
Examples
“My friend is not 'mistrustful' of me, no, because she don't fear I shall make mainprize of the stray cloaks and umbrellas down-stairs, or turn an article for _Colburn's_ on her sayings and doings up-stairs, -- but spite of that, she does mistrust ... _so_ mistrust my common sense, -- nay, uncommon and dramatic-poet's sense, if I am put on asserting it!”
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
“I ussually just don't say anything, sit there and continue to think these "mistrustful" thoughts.”
“The ministers, deeply mistrustful of Greek political leaders after nearly two years of missed milestones, also asked for a written commitment from the main Greek political parties to support the program.”
“They are more alike than different and when you see them, you're less likely to be mistrustful or wary of other cultures.”
Voice of America: Smithsonian Folklife Festival Expected to Draw a Million Visitors
“While the jury is still out on whether the mistrustful governments can agree on the fine print, the new proposals for the first time constitute a Greek debt reduction programme that could supply the foundations for economic recovery.”
The Guardian: New bailout blueprint for Greece doubles cost to taxpayers
“TRUST is the most important part of a relationship, you have to trust in the other person and not be jealous and mistrustful of their friendships with others”
“The unilateral strike has dangerously unhinged a 60-year-old partnership between the two nations, leaving the Pakistanis embarrassed and resentful and the Americans even more mistrustful of their supposed allies.”
“Many protesters have grown mistrustful of the military, accusing it of dragging its feet in bringing former regime officials to trial.”
“In another case, a mistrustful hospital executive demanded written pledges that his company's patient information wouldn't be used in setting the patients' insurance rates.”
“It's not that my generation has grown complacent; it's that we have a reason to be mistrustful.”
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