distrustfully

comparative more distrustfully · superlative most distrustfully

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

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   […] 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