mistrust
noun
lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
mistrustfulness
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a word derived from
mistrust.
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a word derived from
mistrustful.
Example Sentences
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Mitya drew back his hand, but at once blamed himself for his mistrustfulness.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is a look of utter misery, compounded with mistrustfulness of the deceiving hag.
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
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 James Joyce
"But where are you bound for?" he asked with some mistrustfulness.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I found in him, on the contrary, an extreme mistrustfulness concealed under a mask of naïveté, and an intelligence of considerable range.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
