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Mistrustfulness

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.

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mistrustfulness

n. Quality of being mistrustful.

Usage examples of "mistrustfulness".

It was hard, he thought, to be within sight of safety and almost of home, and to be baulked by the want of a few wretched shillings and by the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials.