Example Sentences

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Another nature seemed to have been lent him: the infection of the excitement and youth about him entered into and transformed his moody mistrustfulness.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James

From his eyes a certain mistrustfulness looked forth,—not mistrustfulness of others, but of himself,—as if confidence in his own powers had received an overwhelming shock.

From The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories by Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)

"But where are you bound for?" he asked with some mistrustfulness.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Mitya drew back his hand, but at once blamed himself for his mistrustfulness.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

For my part, I hate all this mistrustfulness that's goin'.

From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir