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n. - The trait of not trusting others.

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Usage examples (18)
  • Adjective : An alert scientist is distrustful of coincidences
  • "You show a distrustfulness that is ... scarcely friendly."
  • Jonathan proceeded to give me a speech about how my distrustfulness seems to be a reoccurring theme.
  • You know, ever since watching him on TV for the first time back in June, the Midterm Roundup has felt an eerie, sort of inexplicable sense of distrustfulness toward Tom...
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