ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Distrustfully

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Distrustfully is an adverb meaning In a distrustful manner.

Meaning

In a distrustful manner.

Example Sentences

This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully
[…] now he listens to mine host as he recounts the strange absence of the preacher, pauses and combs his long red beard with his fingers, looks distrustfully, and then says, with a quaintness that disarmed suspicion, Niggerlike! — preacher or angel, nigger will be nigger! […]

Synonyms for distrustfully

Depending on context, synonyms include mistrustfully.

Antonyms for distrustfully

Common opposites include confidingly, trustfully, trustingly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mistrustfully, distrustingly, mistrustingly, untrustingly, warily, doubtingly.

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