The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mistrustful \Mis*trust"ful\, a. Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv. --
Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
WordNet
adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, suspicious, untrusting, wary]
Usage examples of "mistrustful".
Armand was quite glad to meet him, and when de Batz suggested that a good talk over old times would be vastly agreeable, the younger man gladly acceded, The two men, though certainly not mistrustful of one another, did not seem to care to reveal to each other the place where they lodged.
Every day I read the paper and watched the television news to see if Abbas would screw up and mention me, which he didn't, and to see what else the president would put in his mouth that day in some obscure neighborhood where offended and mistrustful Americans waited to see if the president would insult them by not eating their food.
Gerald looked down at him, attracted, so deeply bondaged in fascinated attraction, that he was mistrustful, resenting the bondage, hating the attraction.
It was a whole community of mistrustful couples insulated in private houses or private rooms, always in couples, and no further life, no further immediate, no disinterested relationship admitted: a kaleidoscope of couples, disjoined, separatist, meaningless entities of married couples.
Her cousin Fenneth was notoriously cantankerous and mistrustful, but she was outdoing herself this time.