The trait of not trusting others

Usage examples of mistrust.

Though he knew de Batz to be an ardent Royalist, and even an active adherent of the monarchy, he was soon conscious of a vague sense of mistrust of this pompous, self-complacent individual, whose every utterance breathed selfish aims rather than devotion to a forlorn cause.

Mistrusting their stomachs if not their nerves, Brier stopped them at the stair-head and descended alone, cautiously, into the chambers of her former lord.

And he told you that Birchill, mistrusting his unwilling accomplice, hurried on the date of the burglary so as to give him no such opportunity.

Lo Manto looked at the thin man, waiting for his answer, sensing a mixture of arrogance and mistrust in both attitude and manner.

Ranulf gave her a guarded glance, as if mistrusting the intent of her remark.

He marveled each time at this gloomy and mysterious impression, and, mistrusting himself, put off the unriddling of it to some future time.

King though he might be in name, into such contempt was he fallen that not one of them rose in deference, whilst Mary herself watched his approach with hostile, mistrusting eyes.

Bertrand the favourite eyed him askance, mistrusting and disliking him for his association with Andreas.

The parafoil was a technology he deeply mistrusted, but once he had felt the same way about microprocessors.

Needed for his talent, he was never to be long out of office and, despite mistrust, was to reach the premiership in 1782 in time to negotiate the treaty confirming American independence.

Yet these hard lessons proved useful, for they taught me to mistrust the impudent sycophants who openly flatter their dupes, and never to rely upon the offers made by fawning flatterers.

Her strong, black brows grew straight and thick in an unbroken line above her eyes, her upper lip was dark with a sparse but unmistakable moustache of a few black hairs, her face, at once cold and hard in its mistrust, and smouldering with a dark and sinister desire, was stamped with that strange fellowship of avarice and passion he had seen in the faces of women such as this all over France.

The brows drew in, the black eyes hardened with a cold narrowing of mistrust: even before he spoke he saw she had read the story of his profligate extravagance, and that from that moment the hard propriety of her suspicious soul had been turned against him with that virtuous dislike which such people feel for unmoneyed men.

Snagsby, breaking off with a mistrust that he may have unpolitely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr.

Now that the feud, blessed thought, was all off, sworn off, and a lingering mistrust of the twins seemed quite unsisterly, probably that need of her, or illusion of need, had passed.