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Two of the most common symptoms of trauma are hyper-vigilance and distrustfulness.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2019

Deceived by everybody, even by his creatures, experience had increased his natural distrustfulness.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de

Men were among us by hundreds whom the ceaseless distrustfulness of their governments had followed privately, by means of appointed agents, to our shores.

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie

But that strange distrustfulness of which he had spoken, or the hesitation which the strongest and bravest men have at times, came between.

From The Laurel Bush by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

This kind of responsibility suited the men; and we had already found, as the whole army afterwards acknowledged, that the constitutional watchfulness and distrustfulness of the colored race made them admirable sentinels.

From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth