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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This mistrustfulness offended others of his friends, and, in particular, Munatius, the most intimate of them all, became almost irreconcilable.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
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
For my part, I hate all this mistrustfulness that's goin'.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"But where are you bound for?" he asked with some mistrustfulness.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray
