untrusting

Example Sentences

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“Louise Gluck’s poetry gives voice to our untrusting but unstillable need for knowledge and connection in an often unreliable world,” Galassi said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

It might sound untrusting, but it’s usually in your best interest to keep most of your financial assets separate.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023

"When they arrived, they were very meek and docile and untrusting of the world and of others," Mr Bermido Jr says.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2022

If you feel uncomfortable with your physician or untrusting, don't chalk this down and say, "Well, it doesn't matter," because it does.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2021

He too felt the specter of the waiting unknown, though his hopes and fears were nearly opposite; and he became once more the untrusting hill-man.

From The Mantooth by Leadem, Christopher