(a.) Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
(a.) Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(2) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(3) (The leadership may distrust him, but surely couldn't, in such circumstances, keep him out of cabinet.)
(4) The public, throughout the years of the coalition government, has been empowered to distrust teachers.
(5) We should distrust those who sell the snake oil of simple solutions,” he said today.
(6) So little wonder that the spectacle of five safety incidents in a week – however minor – could trigger rumblings of distrust from a nervous public.
(7) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
(8) Particular attention is given to the effect that an environment of intensified anger, hostility, distrust, and despair has on the coping mechanisms of terminally ill, incarcerated patients.
(9) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.
(10) Hassan said a ceasefire could theoretically benefit the rebels if it were implemented in good faith, but that many distrust the government’s motives.
(11) It’s fuelled by distrust of the fact that major labels own at least 18% of the company through equity stakes granted when it was negotiating its first licences in 2007 and 2008.
(12) There are numerous studies now on how there are no connections between autism and immunization.” “The main place that [mercury] still exists is in the flu vaccines and people have the option to get the flu vaccine without mercury in it.” Carrey has expressed his distrust of vaccinations in the past.
(13) Above all it needs to happen soon, before the contagion, and the poisonous distrust it engenders, spread further.
(14) In Yokohama, distrust of medical care appeared to be higher among those interviewees who did not have a family doctor than those who had.
(15) Appalling events illustrating the distrust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, particularly communities of color, continue to manifest day after day in neighborhoods across America,” said Kanya Bennett, of the American Civil Liberties Union.
(16) The spiral of distrust may continue without a semblance of the following remedies.
(17) So when you give them that, of course they’re going to fund you and give you resources and connect you to the right people.” That there are imams on the taskforce is also a concern to imam Hassan Jaamici Mohamud, who believes it conflates church and state, and could cause distrust among the congregations.
(18) The legal drama adds to political uncertainty at a time when the government can ill afford to be distracted from a dizzying array of crises, including widespread unrest over electricity shortages and Pakistan's deeply distrustful relationship with the US.
(19) This goes to the foundational relationship between law enforcement agencies and the communities that they’re sworn to serve and to protect.” In remarks at the meeting Obama said the “simmering distrust” between police and minority communities was not unique to St Louis but relevant to communities across the country.
(20) Intended to foster a sense of belonging and being part of a collective endeavour, it instead turned Beijing into a place of introverted islands, separated by competition and mutual distrust.
Suspicious
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
(a.) Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
(a.) Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
Example Sentences:
(1) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(2) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
(3) Spain's tax office is conveniently, some could say suspiciously, underfunded.
(4) Early biopsy of suspicious lesions followed by amputation of the digit in those proving positive is the treatment of choice.
(5) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
(6) Two infants with previously abnormal or suspicious FAT, OCT, and intrapartum fetal heart tracings were stillborn.
(7) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
(8) Thirty-six patients underwent biopsy of clinically suspicious lesions of the mucosa of the upper aerodigestive tract.
(9) Management of female patients includes careful inspection of the vulva with each full-skin or gynecologic examination, followed by biopsy of any suspicious lesion.
(10) Nearly 50% showed up with involvement of fixated and suspicious lymphnodes.
(11) One case classified as suspicious for malignancy by cytologic examination could be identified as cirrhotic nodule by further investigations.
(12) An area of translucence around a dense zone, appearing more clearly with traction, is suspicious.
(13) Bronchoscopic examination revealed endobronchial tumor or suspicious lesion in 63.2 percent cases.
(14) inflammation or regeneration) a "suspicious" cervical smear with a polyploid DNA-distribution pattern may reverse to normal cervical epithelium after normal conditions are restored.
(15) The standards undergirding a suspicious activity report are defined as: " Observed behavior reasonably indicative of preoperational planning related to terrorism or other criminal activity ."
(16) The patient's sexual partner was examined colposcopically, and no suspicious lesions were seen.
(17) The midwife in the maternity unit can look at the tracing and ask the patient to come if the tracing is insufficient or suspicious.
(18) But Cleveland city hall released out a statement that read: "Media reports of multiple calls to the Cleveland police reporting suspicious activity and the mistreatment of women at 2207 Seymour are false."
(19) I’m desperately sorry, says head who hired paedophile William Vahey Read more Investigators in the UK have already established that while Vahey was teaching in London from 2009 to 2013, teachers on four different trips reported his suspicious behaviour with pupils to the school.
(20) According to Sussex police, explosives experts investigated what was initially deemed a suspicious item discarded by the man and carried out a small controlled explosion.