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mistrustful
1. In adolescence, they were more likely to be seen as shying away from social contacts; to be stubborn and indecisive; to be easily upset by frustrations; to think of themselves as bad or unworthy; to regress or become immobilised by stress; to be resentful and mistrustful about not ‘getting enough’; to be prone to jealousy and envy; to overreact to irritation with a sharp temper, so provoking arguments and fights
2. In that mistrustful place of
3. He’d grown mistrustful about the motives of monsieur LaFoote, and it devastated Ravan to think that the Fat Wife might also be a part of it
4. Not one which is secretive, fear-filled, paranoid, mistrustful, frozen, unchanging, non-questioning
5. The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no
6. In fact, it was not the same face, not the same look as the evening before: sullen, mistrustful and obstinate
7. I read! What did I not read! Sometimes the elder nun, gliding up and casting a mistrustful look on the open pages, would lay her hand lightly on my head and suggest in a doubtful whisper, "Perhaps it is not very good for you to read these books
8. A poll tax she advocated led to widespread rioting, and she was deeply mistrustful of Britain’s participation in the European Union, thinking it eroded its power
9. "Oh, sir," said Danglars, after he had convinced himself of the authenticity of the documents he held, and rising as if to salute the power of gold personified in the man before him,—"three letters of unlimited credit! I can be no longer mistrustful, but you must pardon me, my dear count, for confessing to some degree of astonishment
10. The town was in effect run by the priory – narrow, conservative, mistrustful of new ideas, careless of the interests of the townspeople
11. He knew, he understood and her task was neglect, of course he was mistrustful of her sudden turnabout
12. ” Regan’s disposition toward all of humanity had been pretty mistrustful at that point, and so she couldn’t quite credit the enthusiasm of the woman, who was after all trying to sell her something
13. For the mistrustful and Luddite investors, share certificates are still available
14. Graham was particularly mistrustful of executives (he did not like to visit managements for this reason)
15. Our general attitude toward new convertible issues is thus a mistrustful one
16. I was mistrustful of just about everything
17. 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
18. I was sometimes in my moments of purest sincerity quite sad that I never could express everything even to my nearest and dearest, that is, I could but will not; for some reason I restrain myself, so that I'm mistrustful, sullen and reserved
19. He was sour, embittered, and mistrustful, with much self-control; this was quite antipathetic to me; the man had a closed soul, closed to everybody, and he made you feel it
20. All these people were as bilious as they could be, humoursome, mistrustful, the victims of a moral and physical supersensitiveness
21. He was a solid youth with a free-and-easy though mistrustful manner, with an unchangeably satirical smile, together with a calm air of triumphant faith in his own perfection
22. He seemed suspicious of everything and everybody, great and small, and grew mistrustful of himself
23. " He paused and looked at Arkady with a downcast and mistrustful face
24. "Do I not appear too agitated? She is mistrustful
25. The door, as before, was opened a little, and again the two eyes, with mistrustful glance, peeped out of the dark
26. The young man cast a mistrustful look about him