The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a.
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Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks.
--Pope. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
--Boyle. -- Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*trust"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a distrustful manner
WordNet
adv. with distrust; "she looked at him distrustfully" [syn: mistrustfully] [ant: trustfully]
Usage examples of "distrustfully".
Johns, by nature as well as by education, was disposed to look distrustfully upon any sudden conviction of duty which had its spring in any extraordinary exaltation of feeling, rather than in that full intellectual seizure of the Divine Word, which it seemed to him could come only after a determined wrestling with those dogmas that to his mind were the aptest and compactest expression of the truth toward which we must agonize.
George looks distrustfully from the painted ceiling to the ground, from the ground to Mr. Smallweed, from Mr.