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a.

Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood.
Shak.

-- Mis·trust·ful·ly, adv. -- Mis·trust·ful·ness, n.

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adjective

    Lacking trust or confidence: distrustful, doubting, leery, suspicious, untrusting. See trust/distrust.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
  Synonyms: leery, suspicious, untrusting, wary

 
 
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