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Two of the most common symptoms of trauma are hyper-vigilance and distrustfulness.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2019

This kind of responsibility suited the men; and we had already found, as the whole army afterwards acknowledged, that the constitutional watchfulness and distrustfulness of the colored race made them admirable sentinels.

From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

It was her distrustfulness which had stood in the way.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur

A few are a little m�fiant of these newcomers, with the m�fiance of individual character, not of class distrustfulness, nor of that defensive expressionless we cultivate in England.

From Another Sheaf by Galsworthy, John

And the old lady would explain what a hard and dangerous life was lived by lion-tamers, how their safety depended upon life-long distrustfulness of the creatures over whom they ruled.

From Sylvia's Marriage by Sinclair, Upton