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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mistrustful \Mis*trust"ful\, adjective Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. --Shak. -- {Mis*trust"ful*ly}, adverb -- {Mis*trust"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mistrustful
adjective: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: {leery}, {suspicious}, {untrusting}, {wary}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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