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mistrustfully

adverb

as in suspiciously

with distrust our cat tends to view strangers mistrustfully

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suspiciously

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Somewhere along the way, a weekend of live music starts looking suspiciously like project management.

— Svetlana Khachiyan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
This is, of course, projection; eagles are always glaring suspiciously.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026

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