mistrustfulness

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

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

Now I noticed a severity, even a sort of mistrustfulness in her eyes.

The Insulted and the Injured 2003

Mitya drew back his hand, but at once blamed himself for his mistrustfulness.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

This mistrustfulness offended others of his friends, and, in particular, Munatius, the most intimate of them all, became almost irreconcilable.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Yes, my old friend was right; she had been ill-treated; her hurt could not be healed, and she seemed purposely trying to aggravate her wound by this mysterious behaviour, this mistrustfulness of us all; as though she enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it.

The Insulted and the Injured 2003

I found in him, on the contrary, an extreme mistrustfulness concealed under a mask of naivete, and an intelligence of considerable range.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

There's a kind of -- not a mistrustfulness but a sense of questioning and sometimes I think that lacks in the American press.

CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2001 2001

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

Roses are Red Patterson, James, 1947- 2000

'For fear of being duped,' Taine tells us, Mérimée 'was mistrustful in life, in love, in learning, in art, and he was duped by his own mistrustfulness.'

Connoisseur of Revenge Mazzocco, Robert 1971

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

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922