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
a. 1 Marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious. 2 Causing or giving rise to distrust.
WordNet
adj. having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson [ant: trustful]
incredulous by virtue of distrust
Usage examples of "distrustful".
Though Madame Angelin was terribly upset, she nevertheless hesitated, as if distrustful.
If the Marines got involved in an investigation, Binh Duc would be furious and even more distrustful of her neutrality.
I was sick with the disease of conciliationism towards Menshevism and with a distrustful attitude toward Leninist centralism.
I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.
The Xindi attack on Earth had spawned the xenophobic Terra Prime movement, and might very well have placed human culture on precisely the same distrustful, aggressive trajectory that Neyel civilization had evidently taken.
We have learned definitely from a meeting of Visitors held aboard a spaceship in the South Atlantic to which they invited two of our associates, that the Visitors have grown distrustful of the behavior of the Eisenhower Administration and are going to reveal themselves and take over the United States government next Tuesday.
Although possessed of qualifications for his office so numerous and valuable, he was tremblingly distrustful of his own abilities and exercised his terrible functions with diffidence and hesitation.
For few are the mutually agreeable contracts entered into by signatories basically distrustful the one of the other.
A flood of self-help books describe ACA's variously as overly anxious and responsible, passive placaters, martyrs, apathetic, substance abusers, poor problem solvers, distrustful, out of touch with their feelings, unable to maintain relationships, codependent, shame-filled, suicidal, and so on.
Still vaguely distrustful of Barret's behavior, Astro turned to Hemmingwell.
The Federation reports had said that, though the oldest of the leaders of Boaco Six, Mayori was the most radical, the most distrustful of the Federation.
When, however, he was told the case required that not only he himself, but his principal assistant, who, on account of his long acquaintance with the lake, was usually termed the pilot, were to remain below, there was an alteration in his countenance and manner that denoted strong feeling, though it was so well mastered as to leave even the distrustful Cap in doubt as to its meaning.
Steed was against labor unions, against womens rights, in favor of child labor, strongly opposed to integration of schools, against ministers who brought politics into their sermons, vigorously opposed to the federal income tax and distrustful of any foreign alliance.
The Iraqi regime was distrustful of foreigners and had suffered occasional embargoes by foreign suppliers.
Obviously Zsolt knew nothing, but I wasn't banking on that, he's too stupid to be entrusted with anything, it's just that both Furmint and Hidas are naturally so distrustful that they wouldn't risk telling anyone.