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How to use mistrustful in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word mistrustful? Here are some examples.

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Here again, Washington's reaction has been distant, cautious and mistrustful.
As in the abortion debate, a little awareness of ethics will make us mistrustful of sound-bite-sized absolutes.
He's a pack rat who collects everything that isn't nailed down, and is acutely mistrustful of the others.
We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports, both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners.
Falford would forever be at least mildly paranoid and mistrustful of the world.
They were mistrustful of the old labor hierarchy that had lost the power and will to improve the lives of rank-and-file dockers and sailors.
When I called parents, they were often mistrustful and tended to question or even disbelieve outright what I told them about their children.
Administrators and public health academics are wary and mistrustful of physicians in the field.
But we were always mistrustful of becoming too closely linked to Princeton or any other academic entity.
With another two years before the next election they have to start the campaign now to win the confidence of a mistrustful electorate.
Other writers may have been mistrustful of the notorious inaccuracy of the process of printing.
Nearly 60 years after the defeat at Stalingrad killed 110,000 Germans, the country's citizens remain profoundly mistrustful of militarism.
Both societies were mistrustful of uncontained wanderers, though the colonies had few institutions in which to incarcerate the vagrant poor.
Canadians are generally mistrustful of rules that subordinate or demean women.
It is also perfectly understandable that the general public has become more mistrustful of the business world.
He sat before a wall full of badges, in a big swivel chair, his bovine features set in mistrustful concentration.
For the close-minded and mistrustful its strangeness or foreignness makes it a provocation.
Twelve had undergone lasting personality change, leaving them hostile and mistrustful, socially withdrawn and plagued by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness.
An almost reclusive leader of few evident convictions, he is both mistrustful and, after two years in office, increasingly mistrusted.
And his general impression was that the other committees, while welldisposed to the Human Rights Committee, were somewhat mistrustful of it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And this it is that makes them, as no doubt they are, so mistrustful and wary.
Then do not be astonished that I am mistrustful, since you suspect me of knowing what I do not know.
You were my enemy once, and have since been in a mistrustful truce with me, yet you can doubt that I did this thing.
The Queen had faith in him, and he entreated her to give her word for him to mistrustful Cecil.
He is too mistrustful of Nature, he always goes a little on one side of her.
The President was helpless, and mistrustful of his officers, and the officers were caballing against the President.
I can be no longer mistrustful, but you must pardon me, my dear count, for confessing to some degree of astonishment.
D'Artagnan twisted his mustache like a man embarrassed with the confidence he is about to make and mistrustful of his confidant.
Lachesis Opinionated, jealous, Uses wit to distract suspicious and attention from their mistrustful.
The great banks remained hostile, and capitalists were mistrustful.
He was less defiant, or mistrustful, or whatever be the name for it.
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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