distrustful
distrustful
Definition
dis·trust·ful (-fəl)
adjective
distrusting; doubting
distrustful of
suspicious of; having no confidence in
distrustful
Synonyms
distrustful
Usage Examples
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.
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