Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Feeling or showing doubt.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of distrust; wanting confidence; suspicious; mistrustful.
  • Not confident; apprehensive; diffident; modest: as, distrustful of ourselves.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest.
  • adjective Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious.
  • adjective Causing or giving rise to distrust.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or showing distrust

Etymologies

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From distrust + -ful.

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Examples

  • Whilst I remain distrustful of Cameron on matters European, he will surely not want to start his Ministry by refusing the British people once more a comprehensive say on Europe, if only to try and settle the matter for a generation.

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  • Whilst I remain distrustful of Cameron on matters European, he will surely not want to start his Ministry by refusing the British people once more a comprehensive say on Europe, if only to try and settle the matter for a generation.

    Archive 2008-06-15 2008

  • The survey found that Obama’s policies were partly to blame for a rise in distrustful, anti-government views.

    4 Out of 5 Americans Distrust Washington According to Pew Poll | Impact Lab 2010

  • In terms of those who are "distrustful" about the port deal, the congressional majority has been just as vocal as the minority, including top GOP leaders like Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert, and Tom DeLay.

    Steve Benen: Bush's Indiscriminate Demagoguery 2008

  • Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard.

    The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900

  • He seemed to have obtained most complete sway over his master or patron, whose looks he watched, and whose steps he followed, with a kind of distrustful interest that puzzled me greatly.

    Curious, if True Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • He seemed to have obtained most complete sway over his master or patron, whose looks he watched, and whose steps he followed, with a kind of distrustful interest that puzzled me greatly.

    The Grey Woman and other Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Moreover they stated that brands that did not protect their online identity made them feel "distrustful" (56\%), "disappointed" (17\%), "betrayed" (13\%), and

    Online Gambling News 2009

  • Moreover they stated that brands that did not protect their online identity made them feel "distrustful" (56\%), "disappointed" (17\%), "betrayed" (13\%), and

    Online Gambling News 2009

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