mistrustful

adj

Etymology: From mistrust + -ful.

1. Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something).

   “[…] I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawn’d an open hand in sign of love;”

   “In the passage I met the nurse. She greeted me with a little smile; but I was mistrustful of professional cheerfulness that night.”

2. Expressing or showing a lack of trust.

   “He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, And nycely trode, as thornes lay in his way”

   “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. E.”

3. Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case).

   “The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no.”

4. Causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

   “Vp we gad, owt spredding oure sayls and make to the seaward: Al creeks mistrustful with Greekish countrye refusing.”

   “[…] stonish’d as night-wanderers often are, Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood, Even so confounded in the dark she lay, Having lost the fair discovery of her way.”