[ adj ] openly distrustful and unwilling to confide <adj.all>
Mistrustful \Mis*trust"ful\, a. Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. --Shak. ※ -- {Mis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Mis*trust"ful*ness}, n.
"Other people one begins to look at with strange mistrustful apprehension, but the irrepressible wit that is the golden kernel of John coped ultimately and always emerged," he said.
Castaneda, a senior assembler technician certified by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a variety of electronics work, said her struggle has left her feeling alienated and mistrustful of the aerospace industry.