How To Use Trustfulness In A Sentence
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Men were among us by hundreds whom the ceaseless distrustfulness of their governments had followed privately, by means of appointed agents, to our shores.
The Woman in White
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Workers then come to exhibit some of the more traditional virtues such as generosity and trustfulness, and avoid some of the more traditional vices such as cowardice, stinginess, and self-indulgence.
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You show a distrustfulness that is ... scarcely friendly.
The Boat of a Million Years
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It is a trust and trustfulness which in the dioceses on the whole works well.
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This, in turn, had engendered a chronic distrustfulness, and his mind and character had become so warped that he was a very disagreeable man to deal with.
THE MAN WITH THE GASH
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You know, ever since watching him on TV for the first time back in June, the Midterm Roundup has felt an eerie, sort of inexplicable sense of distrustfulness toward Tom Kean, Jr.
Midterm Roundup
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The loss of a mate or a friend or a colleague through distrust is not a punishment for distrustfulness.
Akoshia Yoba: It Takes One to Know One: Dancing With the Shadow Self
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He felt his own distrustfulness and simultaneously the mistrustfulness of Jesus' entourage.
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The second most common criticism leveled against the rape arc is that Veronica's combative distrustfulness has gone from a winning personality quirk to downright annoying, and Buffy alumni can be forgiven for fearing that the show's heroine is being made into such an extreme version of herself that soon it will strain credulity that anyone would actually be willing to spend time with her.
Archive 2006-11-01
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From hour to hour I reproach myself for that excess of faith and trustfulness which has led to such distressing consequences; and almost from minute to minute, I hope that Mr Dombey may explain himself, and relieve the torture I undergo, which is extremely wearing.
Dombey and Son
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After a brief discussion, wealth and material acquisitions are invariable dismissed and core personal values of love, friendship and trustfulness emerge to the forefront.
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Jonathan proceeded to give me a speech about how my distrustfulness seems to be a reoccurring theme.
Horny Man and His Early Morning Phone Call
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Beside her sat a yellow and wrinkled woman of forty-five, with a low neck, in a black headdress, with a toothless smile on her intently-preoccupied and empty face, and in the inner recesses of the box was visible an elderly man in a wide frock-coat and high cravat, with an expression of dull dignity and a kind of ingratiating distrustfulness in his little eyes, with dyed moustache and whiskers, a large meaningless forehead and wrinkled cheeks, by every sign a retired general.
Chapter XII
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As individual paranoia involves the ‘irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others,’ so too does news media thrive on the next big terror.
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The gentle boy who, with innocent reverence, makes his visit of courtesy to the foreign teacher, bringing for gift a cluster of iris-flowers or odorous spray of plum-blossoms, -- the boy who does whatever he is told, and charms by an earnestness, a trustfulness, a grace of manner rarely met with among Western lads of the same age, -- is destined to undergo the strangest of transformations long before becoming a baccalaureus.
Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
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Such distrustfulness in Mitya, such lack of confidence even to him, to Alyosha — all this suddenly opened before Alyosha an unsuspected depth of hopeless grief and despair in the soul of his unhappy brother.
The Brothers Karamazov
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Thus, O king, they lived (in that mansion) very guardedly, deceiving Purochana by a show of trustfulness and contentment while in reality they were trustless and discontented.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
