The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trustful \Trust"ful\, a.
Full of trust; trusting.
Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. [1913 Webster] -- Trust"ful*ly,adv. -- Trust"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a trustful manner.
WordNet
adv. with trust; in a trusting manner; "she looked at her father trustingly" [syn: trustingly, confidingly] [ant: distrustfully]
in a trustful manner; "his mouth grinned trustfully" [syn: showing trust]
Usage examples of "trustfully".
The goats did not gather round him so trustfully as usual, but seemed to avoid him timidly, for Peter had reached a high pitch of anger and bitterness, and was laying about him with his stick very unnecessarily, and where it fell the blow was no light one.
His authority carried many of the men along for several hours: it was only towards dawn, when he felt his own brain lagging with the effort of concentration, that the competitors began to thin out, and the clapping and shouting to fade to a ghostly mutter of sound: to a moaning like the wind, and a rustling like the cold waves curling and slopping against the raft, the waves that trustfully waited to swallow them all.