mistrustfulness

His mistrustfulness made treatment at the hospital difficult, if not impossible.

"They bring their economic attitudes and discontents, and linked to this is a mistrustfulness of big corporations.

Yet in Coyd's eyes was the semblance of a glare; the natural mistrustfulness that went with the man's self-styled independence.

Another nature seemed to have been lent him: the infection of the excitement and youth about him entered into and transformed his moody mistrustfulness.

With the increase of friendship between Hubert Banks and Harry Vincent, the millionaire had lost his old mistrustfulness.

What's remarkable about the portrait, among many other things, is how Velazquez keeps within the tradition of papal portraiture but conveys the capricious cruelty and sullen mistrustfulness that characterized this Pope.

It was hard, he thought, to be within sight of safety and almost of home, and to be baulked by the want of a few wretched shillings and by the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials.

The noblemen in both big and small rooms grouped themselves by camps, and from the hostility and mistrustfulness of the glances, from the hushing of talk whenever an outsider approached, from the fact that people went off to a far corridor to whisper, one could see that each side had secrets from the other.