0 in a way that shows you have doubts about the honesty or abilities of someone, or that shows you have doubts about whether something is good, safe, true etc.: --
She stared mistrustfully at them.
He was, in short, shy--shy to a last degree; a self-conscious, timorous man that on every occasion shrank mistrustfully from the busy world about him.
They looked at me mistrustfully.
The boy came for the money mistrustfully, and ran off with it as fast as he could.
He nodded mistrustfully; then after surveying her gravely, evidently thought better of her and volunteered the information that he was waiting for his daddy.
Turning, he was startled by the reflection of his own white face staring at him mistrustfully from the mirror over the fire.
They looked at him and at his shoes mistrustfully, as at an alien.
Reaching out a hand she thrust the little one mistrustfully away from her.
Some people automatically respond mistrustfully at the mention of the word “politician”.
