distrustful

Example Sentences

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Everybody has felt heartbreak or confusion or duped or confused or distrustful of their own intuition and all of that stuff.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

The people angered by and distrustful of Discord’s invasive verification methods are right to be.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2026

My distrustful and selfish brother was named as the executor of my late parents’ estate.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

Ms. McGarr, who teaches at University of Wisconsin-Madison, is often acerbic about her subjects but notes that they were “awash in patriotic fervor at the same time that they were distrustful and cynical.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Like all the highland armies' that have ever marched against Gramarye, they were distrustful of each other.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White