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Word Meanings - MISTRUSTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With distrust or suspicion.

Related words: (words related to MISTRUSTINGLY)

  • DISTRUSTLESS
    Free from distrust. Shenstone.
  • SUSPICION
    suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is in imitation of L. suspicio 1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension
  • DISTRUST
    To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He
  • DISTRUSTFUL
    1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope. 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. Boyle. -- Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv.
  • DISTRUSTER
    One who distrusts.
  • DISTRUSTING
    That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- Dis*trust"ing*ly, adv.
  • UNSUSPICION
    The quality or state of being unsuspecting. Dickens.
  • SELF-DISTRUST
    Want of confidence in one' self; diffidence.

 

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