Adjective
Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something).
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[…] I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawn’d an open hand in sign of love;
In the passage I met the nurse. She greeted me with a little smile; but I was mistrustful of professional cheerfulness that night.
Expressing or showing a lack of trust.
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He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, And nycely trode, as thornes lay in his way
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At last, having held a document before her glasses for nearly five minutes, she presented it across the counter; accompanying the act by another inquisitive and mistrustful glance—it was for J. E.
He led the way to the stable-yard accordingly, the Rat following with a most mistrustful expression […]
Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case).
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The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no.
Causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
Usage- Obsolete
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Vp we gad, owt spredding oure sayls and make to the seaward: Al creeks mistrustful with Greekish countrye refusing.
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[…] stonish’d as night-wanderers often are, Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood, Even so confounded in the dark she lay, Having lost the fair discovery of her way.
Adjective
openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
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