Mistrusted
[mɪs'trʌstid]
Examples
- I almost mistrusted myself as growing quite wicked in my suspicions, but I was not so sure that Richard loved her dearly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that if I did, he would think me worse than I was. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And he mistrusted her, he was afraid of a woman capable of such abandon, such dangerous thoroughness of destructivity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I cried hot tears: not because Madame mistrusted me--I did not care twopence for her mistrust--but for other reasons. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was exactly because he had his staff, and presented so quaint an aspect, that she mistrusted his making the journey. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His ignorance, poor fellow, at last served him; he never mistrusted but that my inheritance was quite safe, with Mr. Jaggers's aid. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She wished that Blenkinsop were here to hear it: Blenkinsop always mistrusted that Miss Sharp. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I mistrusted a design to entrap me into some admission. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Here is not the slightest thing that ever we have seen save in pictures--and we always mistrusted the pictures before. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A bad workman of any sort makes his fellows mistrusted. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And it was this tolerance she mistrusted, not the fury. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If you mistrusted his looks, you should not have asked him to the Grange. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Editor: Peter