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untrustful

American  
[uhn-truhst-fuhl] / ˌʌnˈtrʌst fəl /

adjective

  1. not able or willing to trust; mistrustful or distrustful.


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It was a full-blooded attempt at character assassination, a branding of Rodgers as untrustful, a perpetrator of untruths, a spreader of falsehoods; divisive, misleading and unacceptable.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

“We’re naturally a little bit untrustful of really new foods,” Wansink says.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2014

So Ged had been warned often, and when the dragon spoke he listened with an untrustful ear, all his doubts ready.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

But she knew that he was too innately untrustful, unloving, to be saved by an act of faith.

From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles

Being a trustful man he was cheated until he became untrustful.

From Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters by Francis B. Pearson

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