How To Use Mistrustful In A Sentence
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He is mistrustful of my ability.
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Many of the men were mistrustful of a people who had switched allegiance halfway through a war, but Conrad couldn't really care.
AMAGANSETT
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They are wary, mistrustful of institutions that have disappointed us all.
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The senseless waste of human life is graphically depicted as soldiers on both sides, fearful and mistrustful of themselves as much as each other, slaughter one another in the killing fields of Bangladesh.
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'Noo yo'll not mak a rumpus, Davy,' he said, mistrustfully.
The History of David Grieve
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Administrators and public health academics are wary and mistrustful of physicians in the field.
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He felt his own distrustfulness and simultaneously the mistrustfulness of Jesus' entourage.
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Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.
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Now we have become so dependent on trade (and the U.S. has become so mistrustful of our ability to police ourselves), that we are spending hundreds of millions of new dollars just to keeping the trade flowing.
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But we were always mistrustful of becoming too closely linked to Princeton or any other academic entity.
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Some people are very mistrustful of computerised banking.
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They were mistrustful of the old labor hierarchy that had lost the power and will to improve the lives of rank-and-file dockers and sailors.
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Twelve had undergone lasting personality change, leaving them hostile and mistrustful, socially withdrawn and plagued by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness.
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But their most brilliant material was deeply mistrustful of words and numbers, like the great "7 x 13 = 28," in which Costello proves the title equation to Abbott in a variety of ways (mostly by ignoring base ten).
Chicago Reader
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Its corrosive effects are also seeping into our personal lives, as all surveys reveal that we are becoming increasingly mistrustful of one another.
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They may be withdrawn, mistrustful, aggressive, antisocial.
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I'm very mistrustful about it, because just everyone knows that when you get things second-hand, the problems that there are in the translation are great.
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Falford would forever be at least mildly paranoid and mistrustful of the world.
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Now, months later, a failing war we should not have fought raging, our allies mistrustful of our motives and actions, there is a gap in the way people feel.
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With another two years before the next election they have to start the campaign now to win the confidence of a mistrustful electorate.
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When I called parents, they were often mistrustful and tended to question or even disbelieve outright what I told them about their children.
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The Institute would create a mechanism to bridge the worlds of the arts and sciences, worlds that have often acted unheeding of the other, or worse, mistrustful or hostile to one another and in competition for the intellectual center.
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I like to believe that broad skepticism is the result of educated and opinionated minds growing mistrustful of the institutions around them; however, I don't think it is necessarily a good thing.
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She's a spunky lass but he quickly becomes madly mistrustful and jealous, believing that Emily's friendship with her godfather Colonel Osbourne is a full-blown affair.
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Twelve had undergone lasting personality change, leaving them hostile and mistrustful, socially withdrawn and plagued by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness.
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Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.
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Feeling uncomfortable about technologies that promise to make us more attractive seems a little silly, but I am mistrustful of the version of the good life that seems to be proposed by plastic surgery.
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Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification.
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Both societies were mistrustful of uncontained wanderers, though the colonies had few institutions in which to incarcerate the vagrant poor.
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Voters are bound to be mistrustful of a government that has broken so many promises.
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A good example of when to use this is during discussions with someone who is very mistrustful and tends to be suspicious that the other person is trying to cheat or deceive him.
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For supper they are given pitta bread, tahini and stuffed vine leaves, which they poke at mistrustfully with their fingers - there is no cutlery.
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The pledges - as a result of insults, fatigue and fear - become mistrustful.
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We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports (cricket, sumo), both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners.
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I'm very mistrustful about it, because just everyone knows that when you get things second-hand, the problems that there are in the translation are great.
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As in the abortion debate, a little awareness of ethics will make us mistrustful of sound-bite-sized absolutes.
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The horses slithered down the shallow bank and onto the glassy surface at a rapid trot, but the black was mistrustful of the insecure footing and jibbed skittishly.
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I was extraordinarily mistrustful of District Attorney Rice ' s sudden change from obdurate obstructer to newfound champion of justice " during her campaign, said Friedman attorney Ron Kuby .
Review Slated for Abuse Case
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You know he is of a mistrustful nature, know how quick he is to suspect the worst.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Gray notes that she may also feel worried, confused, exhausted, hopeless, passive, demanding, withholding, mistrustful, and/or disapproving.
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Nearly 60 years after the defeat at Stalingrad killed 110,000 Germans, the country's citizens remain profoundly mistrustful of militarism.
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Here again, Washington's reaction has been distant, cautious and mistrustful.
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Having Darko so mistrustful around Caroline was no bad thing, he thought.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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So, for the next several days, they hang around keeping a mistrustful eye on each other, arguing, and waiting for Louis to call with additional instructions.
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Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.
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I think all my life I have been very mistrustful of power.
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Other writers may have been mistrustful of the notorious inaccuracy of the process of printing.