mistrustful

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mis·trust

(mĭs-trŭst′)

Lack of trust or confidence: I viewed the stranger's advice with mistrust.

tr.v. mis·trust·ed, mis·trust·ing, mis·trusts

1. To regard without trust or confidence: He mistrusted his lieutenant.

2. To doubt the truth or sincerity of: I mistrust everything he says.

mis·trust′ful adj.

mis·trust′ful·ly adv.

mis·trust′ful·ness n.

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Adj.

mistrustful - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

leery, suspicious, untrusting, wary

distrustful - having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson

mistrustful

adjective suspicious, nervous, cautious, uncertain, wary, cynical, doubtful, sceptical, dubious, fearful, hesitant, apprehensive, leery (slang), distrustful, chary He had always been mistrustful of women.
sure, certain, positive, definite, unafraid

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mistrustful

adjective

Lacking trust or confidence:

distrustful, doubting, leery, suspicious, untrusting.

Translations

مُرْتاب، مليء بالشَّك

nedůvěřivý

mistroisk

tortrygginn

mistrustful

[ˌmɪsˈtrʌstfʊl] ADJ → desconfiado, receloso
to be mistrustful of sth/sb → desconfiar de algo/algn

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mistrustful

[ˌmɪsˈtrʌstf^əl] adj → méfiant(e)
mistrustful of → méfiant(e) à l'égard de

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mistrustful

adj → misstrauisch; to be mistrustful of somebody/something → jdm/einer Sache misstrauen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mistrustful

[mɪsˈtrʌstfʊl] adj mistrustful (of) → diffidente (nei confronti di)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mistrust

(misˈtrast) verb

to have no confidence or trust in.

noun

lack of confidence in something.

ˌmisˈtrustful adjective

ˌmisˈtrustfully adverb

mistrustful

a. desconfiado-a, receloso-a.

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“Well, I’m mistrustful, John,” said Leather-Stocking, in whose air there had been, during the whole business, a strong expression of doubt and uncertainty.

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Captain Doane would shrug his shoulders and defiantly meet the mistrustful eyes of the Armenian Jew.

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D'Artagnan twisted his mustache like a man embarrassed with the confidence he is about to make and mistrustful of his confidant.

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And yet they are very much alike too--more alike than they would care to think themselves for they eye each other with cold, mistrustful, deprecating looks.

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And, moreover," Van Baerle, having become mistrustful in his captivity, continued, "there is an animal much more to be feared than even the cat or the rat."

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In fact, it was not the same face, not the same look as the evening before: sullen, mistrustful and obstinate.

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"Then do not be astonished that I am mistrustful, since you suspect me of knowing what I do not know."

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At last, having held a document before her glasses for nearly five minutes, she presented it across the counter, accompanying the act by another inquisitive and mistrustful glance--it was for J.E.

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The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no.

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You are cold, mistrustful, cruel to nervous or clumsy people, and more afraid of the criticisms of those with whom you dance and dine than of your conscience.

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I can be no longer mistrustful, but you must pardon me, my dear count, for confessing to some degree of astonishment."

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She was mistrustful; she could not be otherwise; for the energy of evil is so much more forcible than the energy of good that she could not help looking still upon her abominable governess as an authority.

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