distrustfully
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a distrustful manner.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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! […]"
- "This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully"
Etymology
Etymology tree English distrustful Middle English -ly English -ly English distrustfully From distrustful + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more distrustfully (comparative)
most distrustfully (superlative)