distrustfully

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English distrustful Middle English -ly English -ly English distrustfully From distrustful + -ly.

1. In a distrustful manner

   “[…] 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! […]”

   “This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully”