distrustfully

From distrustful + -ly.

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distrustfully (comparative more distrustfully, superlative most distrustfully)

1. In a distrustful manner
   • 1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter:

     […] 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! […]

   • 1970, David Roberts, Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 97:

     This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully