distrustfully
- a word derived from distrust.
- a word derived from distrustful.
Example Sentences
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Not to mention barking distrustfully at any non-immediate-family members who even approach our door, including people they have known for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2020
Turns out it’s stopped sending its signal because Captain Marvel has arrived — she appears in their lab, looking at them all distrustfully, and she asks: “Where’s Fury?”
From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2019
Months later, the two are still distrustfully circling each other.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 22, 2016
Only the patriarch stayed distrustfully at a distance, while the younger ones picked nits off one another.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2015
He bounded halfway up, in fear; then, realizing what had happened, he sank distrustfully down again.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
