Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With distrust or suspicion.
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- adverb In a
mistrusting manner.
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Examples
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Kids hush their playful chatter and watch you stony-eyed, and good-looking young men wearing combats and carrying footballs step aside mistrustingly.
The One Where She's Not Mismatched kisobel 2007
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Two mistrustingly grunting dobermen are company en route to the well-built impressive mansion, that is told to be 900 square meters large.
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Nor had the face that appeared at the door before Flo could touch the bell, the face that frowned mistrustingly at her explanations before peering past her at the motor.
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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Nor had the face that appeared at the door before Flo could touch the bell, the face that frowned mistrustingly at her explanations before peering past her at the motor.
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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The butler held the chair at the opposite side of the table, and Jurgis thought it was to keep him out of it; but finally he understand that it was the other's intention to put it under him, and so he sat down, cautiously and mistrustingly.
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
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The butler held the chair at the opposite side of the table, and Jurgis thought it was to keep him out of it; but finally he understand that it was the other's intention to put it under him, and so he sat down, cautiously and mistrustingly.
The Jungle 1906
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'What have they done with her, and where are Laurens and the others?' she cried, looking fearfully and almost mistrustingly at me.
The Romance of Golden Star ... George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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He said he had made it a rule to look mistrustingly upon mankind in general, not because he thought it the right point of view, but because it was the safest.
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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You have poisoned the cup of joy that the great God of nature had permitted her to place to her lips and taste of mistrustingly.
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After a short pause Antonio again set off, but the Podesta now followed him more mistrustingly.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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