Distrustful vs. Mistrustful — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Distrustful and Mistrustful
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Distrustful
Feeling or showing doubt.
Mistrustful
Lack of trust or confidence
I viewed the stranger's advice with mistrust.
Distrustful
(active sense) Experiencing distrust, showing distrust, wary, sceptical, suspicious, doubtful.
Mistrustful
To regard without trust or confidence
He mistrusted his lieutenant.
Distrustful
(passive sense) Causing or giving rise to distrust.
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Mistrustful
To doubt the truth or sincerity of
I mistrust everything he says.
Distrustful
Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks.
Mistrustful
Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something).
Distrustful
Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
Mistrustful
Expressing or showing a lack of trust.
Distrustful
Having or showing distrust;
A man of distrustful nature
My experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally
Vigilant and distrustful superintendence
Mistrustful
Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case).
Distrustful
Incredulous by virtue of distrust
Mistrustful
(obsolete) Causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
Mistrustful
Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood.
Mistrustful
Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
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