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Definition of mistrustful in English: mistrustfuladjective mɪsˈtrʌstf(ə)lmɪsˈtrʌstfʊlˌmɪsˈtrəs(t)fəl Lacking in trust; suspicious. 不信任的;多疑的,猜疑的 he wondered if he had been unduly mistrustful of her 他想自己是否过分不信任她了。 Example sentencesExamples - Gray notes that she may also feel worried, confused, exhausted, hopeless, passive, demanding, withholding, mistrustful, and/or disapproving.
- Now, months later, a failing war we should not have fought raging, our allies mistrustful of our motives and actions, there is a gap in the way people feel.
- When I called parents, they were often mistrustful and tended to question or even disbelieve outright what I told them about their children.
- A good example of when to use this is during discussions with someone who is very mistrustful and tends to be suspicious that the other person is trying to cheat or deceive him.
- They are wary, mistrustful of institutions that have disappointed us all.
- Here again, Washington's reaction has been distant, cautious and mistrustful.
- Its corrosive effects are also seeping into our personal lives, as all surveys reveal that we are becoming increasingly mistrustful of one another.
- Feeling uncomfortable about technologies that promise to make us more attractive seems a little silly, but I am mistrustful of the version of the good life that seems to be proposed by plastic surgery.
- Now we have become so dependent on trade (and the U.S. has become so mistrustful of our ability to police ourselves), that we are spending hundreds of millions of new dollars just to keeping the trade flowing.
- Twelve had undergone lasting personality change, leaving them hostile and mistrustful, socially withdrawn and plagued by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness.
- I like to believe that broad skepticism is the result of educated and opinionated minds growing mistrustful of the institutions around them; however, I don't think it is necessarily a good thing.
- We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports (cricket, sumo), both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners.
- I think all my life I have been very mistrustful of power.
- Both societies were mistrustful of uncontained wanderers, though the colonies had few institutions in which to incarcerate the vagrant poor.
- The pledges - as a result of insults, fatigue and fear - become mistrustful.
- Nearly 60 years after the defeat at Stalingrad killed 110,000 Germans, the country's citizens remain profoundly mistrustful of militarism.
- But we were always mistrustful of becoming too closely linked to Princeton or any other academic entity.
- So, for the next several days, they hang around keeping a mistrustful eye on each other, arguing, and waiting for Louis to call with additional instructions.
- With another two years before the next election they have to start the campaign now to win the confidence of a mistrustful electorate.
- Administrators and public health academics are wary and mistrustful of physicians in the field.
Synonyms suspicious, chary, wary, uncertain, unsure, distrustful, untrusting, doubtful, dubious, uneasy, cautious, hesitant, sceptical, unbelieving informal leery
Derivativesadverb mɪsˈtrʌstf(ə)limɪsˈtrʌstfʊliˌmɪsˈtrəs(t)fəli ‘Though the sun is high, it feels like night,’ he muttered, glancing mistrustfully at the river. Example sentencesExamples - He closed all the programs and leant away from the computer mistrustfully as though it were its fault.
- Although the cats eyed him mistrustfully, they popped out of the cramped cages with alacrity.
- The secularists have their island and peer out mistrustfully at everyone else.
- He nodded to the man behind the counter, who stopped briefly to take their order and eye them mistrustfully.
noun mɪsˈtrʌstf(ə)lnəsmɪsˈtrʌstfʊlnəsˌmɪsˈtrəs(t)fəlnəs The file was incomplete, I had not kept up on the charting, and due to the extreme mistrustfulness of the client, I didn't keep extensive notes. Example sentencesExamples - He's achieved international fame, yet his bitter mistrustfulness has alienated friends, lovers, managers, promoters and bandmates.
- These Americans share some of the mistrustfulness but little of the anger of alienated voters.
- It's an effect of big, anonymous city life - what happens when a city is three times larger than New York - or a legacy of the mistrustfulness of the Cultural Revolution years.
- Impatience, mistrustfulness, and competitiveness with other writers can be very damaging to a career.
Definition of mistrustful in US English: mistrustfuladjectiveˌmisˈtrəs(t)fəlˌmɪsˈtrəs(t)fəl Lacking in trust; suspicious. 不信任的;多疑的,猜疑的 he wondered if he had been unduly mistrustful of her 他想自己是否过分不信任她了。 Example sentencesExamples - I think all my life I have been very mistrustful of power.
- We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports (cricket, sumo), both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners.
- Gray notes that she may also feel worried, confused, exhausted, hopeless, passive, demanding, withholding, mistrustful, and/or disapproving.
- Its corrosive effects are also seeping into our personal lives, as all surveys reveal that we are becoming increasingly mistrustful of one another.
- Twelve had undergone lasting personality change, leaving them hostile and mistrustful, socially withdrawn and plagued by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness.
- They are wary, mistrustful of institutions that have disappointed us all.
- The pledges - as a result of insults, fatigue and fear - become mistrustful.
- So, for the next several days, they hang around keeping a mistrustful eye on each other, arguing, and waiting for Louis to call with additional instructions.
- Administrators and public health academics are wary and mistrustful of physicians in the field.
- Here again, Washington's reaction has been distant, cautious and mistrustful.
- Nearly 60 years after the defeat at Stalingrad killed 110,000 Germans, the country's citizens remain profoundly mistrustful of militarism.
- A good example of when to use this is during discussions with someone who is very mistrustful and tends to be suspicious that the other person is trying to cheat or deceive him.
- When I called parents, they were often mistrustful and tended to question or even disbelieve outright what I told them about their children.
- Now we have become so dependent on trade (and the U.S. has become so mistrustful of our ability to police ourselves), that we are spending hundreds of millions of new dollars just to keeping the trade flowing.
- I like to believe that broad skepticism is the result of educated and opinionated minds growing mistrustful of the institutions around them; however, I don't think it is necessarily a good thing.
- With another two years before the next election they have to start the campaign now to win the confidence of a mistrustful electorate.
- Feeling uncomfortable about technologies that promise to make us more attractive seems a little silly, but I am mistrustful of the version of the good life that seems to be proposed by plastic surgery.
- Both societies were mistrustful of uncontained wanderers, though the colonies had few institutions in which to incarcerate the vagrant poor.
- Now, months later, a failing war we should not have fought raging, our allies mistrustful of our motives and actions, there is a gap in the way people feel.
- But we were always mistrustful of becoming too closely linked to Princeton or any other academic entity.
Synonyms suspicious, chary, wary, uncertain, unsure, distrustful, untrusting, doubtful, dubious, uneasy, cautious, hesitant, sceptical, unbelieving |