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How to use distrustful in a sentence

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Often they're instinctively distrustful and expect to be taken advantage of financially.
Even people who are normally, and understandably, distrustful of cops should put their survival first.
I'm distrustful of all these men who buy magazines about health and fashion.
Johnson smirked in a manner that's typical of a player who's cynical and distrustful of a new head coach.
Post workers were angry with management and distrustful of the union leadership.
They defended their villages fiercely, and remain deeply distrustful of the outside world.
On the other hand, I'm automatically distrustful of any group of ruling parties that decides to ban another party.
Slightly less than a third said they were very distrustful of the software giant.
It is not in borrowers' interests for them to become worried and distrustful of their lender.
Sections of the anti-abortion movement are extremely distrustful of politicians.
Many Chinese are distrustful of her success in the West and suspicious that she is playing a Japanese geisha in a big Hollywood film.
Although he used to fraternize with other hotel residents, a series of bad experiences ultimately made him distrustful of the people nearby.
Anti-intellectuals often are distrustful of science and hostile to its practitioners.
You write that troubled teens become jaded and often distrustful of adults and authority.
In fact, he was so far ahead of the field that he had become distrustful of many standard textbooks.
But people in the Black Isle are distrustful of government scientific advice and remain unconvinced.
Not surprisingly, a series of brutal and murderous events left islanders deeply distrustful of outsiders.
Inherently distrustful of the situation and the number of witnesses privy to the scene, Ed finally rushed forward and grabbed his friend's arm, leading him towards the door.
Not only was their empire a military despotism, it was also peculiarly distrustful of any form of self-help, much less self-government, on the part of its subjects.
Most Scots, they say, are distrustful of the nuclear industry and would prefer to tackle climate change through windmills, tidal and solar power, and recycling.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The abbes and the Bishops and the priests are alike distrustful and hostile.
If thoughts do not actuate it, your distrustful fears and cares will vanish.
It would not obey his brain because, after all, what could the brain report of his distrustful heart?
Exhausted by her Sisyphean task, distrustful of this new and unfamiliar method, the Osmia resigns herself and expires in her cell.
They were packing in, and we asked them to take our holdall as far as Rashka, for we were still distrustful of the ox carts.
Victor suspended operations with the handkerchief to bend upon his tormentor a louring, distrustful stare.
He was beginning to be more afraid and more distrustful of his nephew than ever.
But you forget how diffident M. de Bois is, how distrustful of his own merits.
This is an example of a class of writing which may be passed over too lightly by those whom poetasters have made distrustful of poetry.
Avoidant individuals hold distrustful perceptions of others, turn anger and blame against others, and tend to be shy, nonassertive, and distant.
She was distrustful of the future, and apt to anticipate bad fortune.
They are distrustful of anchorites, and do not believe that we come with gifts.
Karl cast a distrustful glance sideways at my nursling and spoke not.
All these cares and worries and disappointments tortured my poor father until he became moody and distrustful.
He seemed unwilling to move, as if distrustful of his own solidity.
There was a pause while he searched her face with a distrustful scrutiny.
Nevil read on, distrustful of the perspicuity of his own ideas.
The distrustful gardener, while plucking away the dead leaves or pruning the too luxuriant growth of the shrubs, defended his hands with a pair of thick gloves.
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