mistrustful

CEFRB2

/mɪˈstrʌstfəl/

adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case).
Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something).
Causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

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In the passage I met the nurse. She greeted me with a little smile; but I was mistrustful of professional cheerfulness that night.
[…] I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawn’d an open hand in sign of love;
The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no.

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[…] I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawn’d an open hand in sign of love;
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:...
In the passage I met the nurse. She greeted me with a little smile; but I was mistrustful of professional cheerfulness that night.
1910, Ian Hay, The Right Stuff, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book Two, Chapter Sixteen, p. 284
He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, And nycely trode, as thornes lay in his way
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 579
At last, having held a document before her glasses for nearly five minutes, she presented it across the counter; accompanying the act by another inquisitive and mistrustful glance—it was for J. E.
1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter X, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 160
He led the way to the stable-yard accordingly, the Rat following with a most mistrustful expression […]
1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 2, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC

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From mistrust + -ful.