I was distrustful of his motives.
Source: tatoeba (68120)
Distrustful
Synonyms for "distrustful" (47 found)
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Related words (23)
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
Translations
28 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- недоверчив adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
- подозрителен adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 多疑 adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Czech
1 entries- nedůvěřivý adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Dutch
1 entries- wantrouwend adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Finnish
1 entries- epäluotettava adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
French
2 entries- méfiant adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
- suspicieux adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
German
1 entries- misstrauisch adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Greek
2 entries- δύσπιστος adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
- καχύποπτος adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Hungarian
2 entries- bizalmatlan adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
- gyanakvó adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Ido
1 entries- desfidema adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Indonesian
1 entries- tidak percaya adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Japanese
1 entries- 疑い深い adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Māori
2 entries- hihira adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
- matakana adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- mistroisk adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Polish
1 entries- nieufny adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Russian
2 entries- недове́рчивый adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
- подозри́тельный adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- amharasach adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Spanish
3 entries- desconfiado adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
- difidente adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
- receloso adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Tagalog
1 entries- walang-tiwala adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Ukrainian
1 entries- недовірливий adj (marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Her father's constant disappearances made her distrustful around men.
Source: tatoeba (813080)
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.
Source: tatoeba (5824709)
What's the name of the man who made you so distrustful of the entire male gender?
Source: tatoeba (10646375)
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