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distrustfully en · ADV

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Etymology

Etymology tree English distrustful Middle English -ly English -ly English distrustfully From distrustful + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a distrustful manner.
   • This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully 1970, David Roberts, Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 97:
   • […] now he listens to mine host as he recounts the strange absence of the preacher, pauses and combs his long red beard with his fingers, looks distrustfully, and then says, with a quaintness that disarmed suspicion, Niggerlike! — preacher or angel, nigger will be nigger! […] 1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter:

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