Sentence examples for mistrustful and from inspiring English sources

An almost reclusive leader of few evident convictions, he is both mistrustful and, after two years in office, increasingly mistrusted.

He comes across as quiet, reserved, mistrustful and occasionally moody.

Karen is right to feel mistrustful and resentful of Tom.

Success had apparently left her more neurotic, mistrustful and hypersensitive to criticism than ever.

When Democrats are in power, Western populists feel especially mistrustful and beleaguered.

Child abuse survivors, particularly those abused in institutional settings, are often highly mistrustful and obsessively motivated.

Many survivors of clerical sexual abuse "remain deeply mistrustful, suspicious and angry towards the church," he said.

"Those who have been let down in the past by loved ones or those in authority may understandably be mistrustful, suspicious and even frightened of those trying to help.

"In private, I become an unlovely person... suspicious, wary and, yes, mistrustful to a completely irrational degree.

But the society will be addressing them with weakened and tarnished institutions, a political process incapable of producing clear policies, embittered losers and mistrustful winners, and no accepted procedures for resolving political differences.

I loved my patients and my practice, but this made me wary and mistrustful of them — and of myself.