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.