Sentence examples for be mistrustful from inspiring English sources
adjective
Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
- Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. William Shakespeare
We expected, given the circumstances between our two countries, that people might be mistrustful, angry, suspicious.
He can be mistrustful to the point of paranoia, but he can be recklessly frank.
"It gives you credibility with people who might be mistrustful because you are Republican," he told me.
Mobile phone coverage in many areas is patchy; and the scheme requires buy-in from local officials who can be mistrustful of technology.
What ulterior agenda could explain Mansour's courting Schmidt's friendship so avidly?While Schmidt's suspicions of his unctuous neighbour could spring from those pernicious anti-Semitic tendencies, readers may be mistrustful of Mansour because Schmidt himself is such an unalluring social quarry.
You have every right to be mistrustful because not everyone (including our own people) has our best interest at heart.
But they were invisible in the dark, and Snelgrave was mistrustful.
The inhabitants of Opik's village, though, were mistrustful of the government's intentions.
Amid tougher regulation, some rich clients were mistrustful of revealing their identities to anybody.
He had acted as his own lawyer because he was mistrustful of anyone else's efforts to defend him.
Biden says that a "small faction" of the Party is mistrustful of even the occasional use of force.
