self-distrustful
- a word derived from self-distrust.
Example Sentences
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One after another, even the most reluctant and self-distrustful of the revellers found themselves caught up into active participation in the figure.
From A Bookful of Girls by Fuller, Anna
The wisdom of such a contest is questionable to me now, but it was the fashion then, and I was too young and self-distrustful to set myself against the current in such matters.
From California Sketches, Second Series by Fitzgerald, O. P.
He wondered, in a self-distrustful way, what would come of it.
From A Venetian June by Fuller, Anna
But California, though crude, was self-distrustful, and it bowed to the decision of the East.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
That being so, this self-distrustful trust is the beginning of everything.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander
