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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having mistrust; wanting trust or confidence; suspicious; doubting: as, a mistrustful spirit.

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

  • adjective Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

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

  • adjective Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

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

  • adjective openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

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