distrustfully

Example Sentences

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Not to mention barking distrustfully at any non-immediate-family members who even approach our door, including people they have known for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2020

Turns out it’s stopped sending its signal because Captain Marvel has arrived — she appears in their lab, looking at them all distrustfully, and she asks: “Where’s Fury?”

From The Verge • Mar. 7, 2019

Months later, the two are still distrustfully circling each other.

From Washington Times • Mar. 22, 2016

Only the patriarch stayed distrustfully at a distance, while the younger ones picked nits off one another.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2015

The three looked at me, but not distrustfully; I felt there was no suspicion in their glances: there was more of curiosity.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë