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is mistrustful
adjective
Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
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Biden says that a "small faction" of the Party is mistrustful of even the occasional use of force.
Most pertinently, the public is mistrustful of any vision for Britain that blends altruism with the profit motive.
But Fuziah Salleh, an opposition legislator who represents downtown Kuantan and has been leading weekly protests, is mistrustful.
For Putin, who both by nature and by K.G.B. training is mistrustful of others, these early friendships seem to have been his only genuine, unguarded bonds.
Even as he gives himself up to the relationship, he is mistrustful, wondering whether he hasn't been "blinded by a stupendous and desperate illusion".
In his unwavering dissents, seven this year, and in his wariness of Wall Street, his views seem rooted in the agrarian and populist tradition that is mistrustful of concentrations of power.
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But they were invisible in the dark, and Snelgrave was mistrustful.
He can be mistrustful to the point of paranoia, but he can be recklessly frank.
We expected, given the circumstances between our two countries, that people might be mistrustful, angry, suspicious.
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.
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