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mistrustfully

mistrustfully adverb: in a mistrustful manner.

Adverb

mistrustfully (comparative more mistrustfully, superlative most mistrustfully)

  1. In a mistrustful manner.
    • Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XXXIII.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    mistrustingly

Synonyms of mistrustfully

Forms of mistrustfully

comparativemore mistrustfully
superlativemost mistrustfully

Origin of mistrustfully

From mistrustful + -ly.

Questions about mistrustfully

What does mistrustfully mean?
Mistrustfully means in a mistrustful manner.
What part of speech is mistrustfully?
Mistrustfully is an adverb.

Words near mistrustfully in the dictionary

  1. mistruster
  2. mistrusters
  3. mistrustest
  4. mistrusteth
  5. mistrustful
  6. mistrustfully
  7. mistrustfulness
  8. mistrusting
  9. mistrustingly
  10. mistrustings
  11. mistrustless

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