distrustfulness
IPA: dɪstrˈʌsfʌɫnʌs
noun
- The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
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Examples of "distrustfulness" in Sentences
- "You show a distrustfulness that is ... scarcely friendly."
- Jonathan proceeded to give me a speech about how my distrustfulness seems to be a reoccurring theme.
- The loss of a mate or a friend or a colleague through distrust is not a punishment for distrustfulness.
- This, in turn, had engendered a chronic distrustfulness, and his mind and character had become so warped that he was a very disagreeable man to deal with.
- Men were among us by hundreds whom the ceaseless distrustfulness of their governments had followed privately, by means of appointed agents, to our shores.
- You know, ever since watching him on TV for the first time back in June, the Midterm Roundup has felt an eerie, sort of inexplicable sense of distrustfulness toward Tom Kean, Jr.
- Such distrustfulness in Mitya, such lack of confidence even to him, to Alyosha — all this suddenly opened before Alyosha an unsuspected depth of hopeless grief and despair in the soul of his unhappy brother.
- The second most common criticism leveled against the rape arc is that Veronica's combative distrustfulness has gone from a winning personality quirk to downright annoying, and Buffy alumni can be forgiven for fearing that the show's heroine is being made into such an extreme version of herself that soon it will strain credulity that anyone would actually be willing to spend time with her.
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