Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

I gasped, beginning to get the untrustful feeling again.

From Phyllis by Johnson, Percy D.

He was the Interpreter to untrustful souls The weary feet he led into the cool Soft plains called Ease; he gave the faint to drink: Dull hearts he brought to the House Beautiful.

From The Setons by Douglas, O.