Distrusted

Examples

• It would seem as if we distrusted her--distrusted her, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Many people would have distrusted you too much to have come even so far, but you see I am willing to humour you. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The American college student has the gravity and mental habits of a Supreme Court judge; his wild oats are rarely spiritual; the critical, analytical habit of mind is distrusted. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I thought it was utterly preposterous--I distrusted it as the result of some perversity in my own imagination. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The brother distrusted and disliked her, and his influence was all opposed to her; she stood in dread of him, and in dread of her husband too. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She distrusted him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She distrusted and disliked him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• How should she have distrusted her powers? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I was not quite impartial in my judgment, Emma:but yet, I thinkhad _you_ not been in the caseI should still have distrusted him. Jane Austen. Emma.

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