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  • adjective Without trust; not inclined to trust.

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  • adjective openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

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Examples

  • Yeah, he's kind of untrusting and suspicious towards others and sure, he can be selfish but once you get past his tough exterior you'll find that he's really quite loyal and in need of love.

    amjl81 Diary Entry amjl81 2004

  • Yeah, he's kind of untrusting and suspicious towards others and sure, he can be selfish but once you get past his tough exterior you'll find that he's really quite loyal and in need of love.

    amjl81 Diary Entry amjl81 2004

  • They are the source of all the GOP-No's that have been making the citizens unhappy and untrusting of Congress. wally

    A top House Republican to endorse Rubio 2010

  • She is angry at men, untrusting, and has all the other issues I listed.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • She is angry at men, untrusting, and has all the other issues I listed.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • Jim Fish, the executive director of the National Association of Professional Allstate Agents, said agents are very untrusting of the company at this moment in time.

    Allstate Warns Agents of Tax Errors, Bonus Issues Erik Holm 2012

  • Â The creature threatened her friends, destroyed her job, even turned her sister Donna against her, leaving her scarred and untrusting.

    Dueling Review: Wonder Woman #37 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • In short: Dems will plead for patience and trust, in the face of an electorate that's very impatient, very angry, and in a distinctly untrusting mood.

    The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2010

  • I glared at it with the same untrusting horror as those people who probably stared at Walter Raleigh's potato all those centuries ago.

    Gwyneth's choice of song in Glee was a bit off. But that's all | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • She is angry at men, untrusting, and has all the other issues I listed.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

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