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What does distrustful mean?

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Adjective
  1. (active sense) Experiencing distrust, showing distrust, wary, sceptical, suspicious, doubtful.
  2. (passive sense) Causing or giving rise to distrust.
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Often they're instinctively distrustful and expect to be taken advantage of financially.
Post workers were angry with management and distrustful of the union leadership.
Sections of the anti-abortion movement are extremely distrustful of politicians.
Although he used to fraternize with other hotel residents, a series of bad experiences ultimately made him distrustful of the people nearby.
Johnson smirked in a manner that's typical of a player who's cynical and distrustful of a new head coach.
Even people who are normally, and understandably, distrustful of cops should put their survival first.

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