distrustful

Preposition: of

• stranger: Most of them will be very gentle, patient and loving with people and children they know but will be very distrustful of strangers.
• politician: People spoke favorably of individual MPs ( including their own ) but were distrustful of politicians in general.
• people: I am deeply distrustful of people who don't take care of themselves.
• authority: Their expectations raised but not satisfied, they grew distrustful of established authorities.

Modifies a noun

• trouble: But when the army is restless and distrustful, trouble is sure to come from the other feudal princes.
• relationship: Local and central government needs to enter into a more reciprocal, less distrustful, relationship with young people.
• eye: With distrustful eye I noted the details of this new vision.

Modifying Another Word

• deeply: I am deeply distrustful of people who don't take care of themselves.
• very: Most of them will be very gentle, patient and loving with people and children they know but will be very distrustful of strangers.
• so: So why were these two super powers so distrustful of the other?
• generally: Hitler was generally distrustful of the Army which he viewed as socially conservative and ideologically too tame.
• increasingly: The poll also suggests that the public are increasingly distrustful of what ministers tell them about the terror threat facing the country.

Used with adjective complement

• grow: Their expectations raised but not satisfied, they grew distrustful of established authorities.