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[syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mistrustful \Mis*trust"ful\, a.
Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
[1913 Webster]
Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. --Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv. --
Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mistrustful
adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn:
leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting,
wary]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "mistrustful":
Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cagey, chary, distrustful, doubtful, doubting,
dubious, from Missouri, in doubt, leery, mistrusting, questioning,
scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, uncertain,
untrusting, wary