adjective
having or showing distrust
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a man of distrustful nature
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"my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo
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"vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson
• Ant: ↑trustful
• Similar to:
↑cynical, ↑misanthropic, ↑misanthropical, ↑doubting, ↑questioning, ↑skeptical, ↑sceptical, ↑jealous, ↑green-eyed, ↑overjealous, ↑leery, ↑mistrustful, ↑suspicious, ↑untrusting, ↑wary, ↑misogynic, ↑oversuspicious
• See Also: ↑incredulous
• Derivationally related forms: ↑distrustfulness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.