distrustful
Adjective
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Having or showing distrust (synset 302472382)
"a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"also: incredulous - not disposed or willing to believe; unbelievingsimilar to:
- cynical, misanthropic, misanthropical - believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
- doubting, questioning, sceptical, skeptical - marked by or given to doubt
- green-eyed, jealous, overjealous - suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival
- leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
- misogynic - (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women
- oversuspicious - unduly suspicious
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