distrustfully
distrustfully adverb: in a distrustful manner.
Adverb
distrustfully (comparative more distrustfully, superlative most distrustfully)
- In a distrustful manner.
- […] 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
- This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully1970, David Roberts, Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 97
distrustfully meaning in Urdu
distrustfully in Urdu
- بدگمانی سے, شک سے
Forms of distrustfully
| comparative | more distrustfully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most distrustfully |
Origin of distrustfully
From distrustful + -ly.
Questions about distrustfully
- What does distrustfully mean?
- Distrustfully means in a distrustful manner.
- What is distrustfully in Urdu?
- Distrustfully in Urdu is بدگمانی سے, شک سے. See Distrustfully meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is distrustfully?
- Distrustfully is an adverb.
Words near distrustfully in the dictionary
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