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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having or showing distrust;
- Example: "a man of distrustful nature"
- Example: "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo
- Example: "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a.
   1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust;
      modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
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            Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks.
                                                  --Pope.
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   2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. --
      Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*trust"ful*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

distrustful
    adj 1: having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful
           nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made
           me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo;
           "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas
           Jefferson [ant: trustful, trusting]