untrustful
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
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He took the letter from Mr. Pyecroft's unwilling and untrustful hands and glanced it through.
From No. 13 Washington Square by Scott, Leroy
I gasped, beginning to get the untrustful feeling again.
From Phyllis by Johnson, Percy D.
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