untrusting

Example Sentences

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It’s just more about her ethos and why she is like she is, why she’s so untrusting, why she’s short with people, doesn’t want to get close with anyone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

"Louise Gluck's poetry gives voice to our untrusting but unstillable need for knowledge and connection in an often unreliable world," her longtime editor Jonathan Galassi said in a statement.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

It might sound untrusting, but it’s usually in your best interest to keep most of your financial assets separate.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023

If you feel uncomfortable with your physician or untrusting, don't chalk this down and say, "Well, it doesn't matter," because it does.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2021

He would try, but Clovis was of a suspicious and untrusting nature, and if failure were to result after all--why he, the abb�, could not help what, of course, he would bitterly deplore.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis