distrustfully
In a distrustful manner
Adverb
- In a distrustful manner
- […] 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,...
- This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully - 1970, David Roberts, Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 97:
Origin
Etymology tree English distrustful Middle English -ly English -ly English distrustfully From distrustful + -ly.