Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a mistrustful manner; with misgiving, suspicion, or doubt.
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- adverb In a
mistrustful manner.
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- adverb with distrust
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Examples
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She looked up, her eyes lodged mistrustfully beneath a band of violet eye shadow.
Alteration Steve Almond 2011
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Bill O'Reilly joins me, and we shake our fists mistrustfully at the sky together.
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Clete continued to glare mistrustfully, but Barrie detected a chink in his hostility.
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Carl and Owen-thirteen and eleven, respectively, with identical straight brown hair but a foot's difference in height between them-were looking mistrustfully at the uniformed man, who seemed mainly interested in Miranda.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Now he turned his head and looked mistrustfully at Olgall.
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She stood between her father and Maeve, looking mistrustfully at the camera, refusing to pose or smile.
The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010
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Alfric stared into the shrubbery bird, looking long and mistrustfully for me.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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Camilla's intended husband, on the advice of his misogynist tutor, subjects Camilla to a 'probationary interval' and mistrustfully follows her adventures in society, ready to believe the worst.
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She looked mistrustfully toward the office door, which was just closing behind Jack and Elizabeth.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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And in fact, he has, in many ways, less room for even some necessary flip-flops because his supporters, core supporters, view him so mistrustfully, whereas Barack ...
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