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Meanings of mistrustful in English
Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
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Usage of mistrustful in English
1
They seem surprised and still mistrustful of finding themselves unharmed and unmolested.
2
Rose's two or three friends were, like herself, mistrustful of the world.
3
Three black dogs with wild, mistrustful eyes kept close to his heels.
4
I should have been more mistrustful; this solution was too simple, too natural.
5
He had changed towards me; he had become very reserved and seemed mistrustful.
6
He was tired of Denver and mistrustful of the limitations upon him there.
7
It was time for him to stop being so goddam mistrustful.
8
Overall, Mr Pistorius appears to be a mistrustful and guarded person.
9
Kahlert met Clara, but she was embarrassed and mistrustful of the stranger's discretion.
10
But then, she had every reason to be mistrustful of him, didn't she.
11
This mistrustful procedure is so common as not to give offence.
12
On the deck, Coniston was advancing, but cautiously mistrustful of me.
13
Joseph said: My dear wife, you are not naturally so mistrustful.
14
Sofia's mistrustful eyes reconnoitred every corner of the room, and reckoned it empty.
15
The English aristocracy was restless, haughty, ungovernable, watchful, and patriotically mistrustful.
16
Naturally sad, suspicious, and timid, he became more melancholy and mistrustful than ever.
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