mistrustful
Meredith poked mistrustfully at the colourful heap on her plate with the fork.
He stood in the middle of the room and stared mistrustfully round him, wondering why he should be so favoured.
Some people automatically respond mistrustfully at the mention of the word “politician”.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trusting and not trusting
(you can) depend on/upon itidiom
accept/take something on faithidiom
bank
bank on someone/something
believe
believe in something
distrust
distrustful
distrustful of someone/something
distrustfully
have faith!idiom
mistrustful
non-confidence
not trust someone an/one inchidiom
put/place your faith in something/someoneidiom
reliance
turn to someone/something
untrusting
untrustworthiness
untrustworthy

Examples of mistrustfully

mistrustfully
Reaching out a hand she thrust the little one mistrustfully away from her.
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They looked at him and at his shoes mistrustfully, as at an alien.
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Turning, he was startled by the reflection of his own white face staring at him mistrustfully from the mirror over the fire.
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He nodded mistrustfully; then after surveying her gravely, evidently thought better of her and volunteered the information that he was waiting for his daddy.
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The boy came for the money mistrustfully, and ran off with it as fast as he could.
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They looked at me mistrustfully.
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He was, in short, shy--shy to a last degree; a self-conscious, timorous man that on every occasion shrank mistrustfully from the busy world about him.
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