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How to use the word distrustful in a Sentence?

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It helps veterans because it’s entirely based on trust, a lot of veterans come at [equine therapy] from a distrustful place, and you’re never going to fool a horse. Whether you’re feeling anxious or fearful, they’re going to know.

– Maddie Feaster

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Being a president is kind of like being a parent, you have to manage expectations. We take the twins on a car ride to Maine from New York … I don't tell the twins we're going to get there in three hours … They're going to be cranky and confused, and they're not going to trust me the next day. And that's how other people feel. They're cranky, confused, and they're distrustful of the president.

– Jesse Watters

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For those who are distrustful, giving them the ability to confirm that their vote got counted, that's where I see a huge potential transformation in trust.

– Tom Burt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of my concerns when we lost all these elections, was that people would just give up on the Republican Party, and give up on resisting the progressives, but that's clearly not happened, there's been a surge of interest, but the people that are interested are just are distrustful of authority –of all types of authority –and there’s some growing pains.

– David Shafer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Looking at African American respondents community surveys in New York City, Black Americans are more distrustful, and with good reason.

– Scott Ratzan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.

– P. J. O'Rourke

added by Normando
4 years ago

I think that we can have a legitimate difference of opinion on this, because I think Iran has shown to be completely distrustful.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

– J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers

added by anonymous
13 years ago

How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

– Sterne

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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