Word: mistrustful
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...willing to walk alone as some testimony to our society's lack of faith and dismal community spirit. So I remain indeterminate, hoping that somewhere in the interstices of the real danger that exists both out there and in here, and the culture of fear and mistrust that pervades our society, we can find a way to be both aware and relaxed, cautious of the dangers and at ease with our surroundings. And then maybe we'll stroll together some late evening along the river...
TIME: After the failure of health-care reform and the Contract with America, do people mistrust big promises about what government...
Although residents said they were glad the subcommittee chose to hold the meeting near the site, many said the council and W.R. Grace had a long way to go to allay years of mistrust...
...fights that war from his side, Peres must contend with the sometime fecklessness of Arafat, the rage of the Israelis, the bitterness of the Palestinians and the mistrust of his own military--all while an election rapidly approaches. So far, he has navigated quite coolly, but he sails a narrow channel, and the seas may well grow higher...
...withholding themselves, passive aggression is an item of banal psychological jargon. But down at its universal level, the term describes an unseen and mischievous jujitsu of history. It suggests the potent emotional antimatter that begins to glow like a dark crystal when people become disconnected from, and learn to mistrust or hate, the powers that control them (government, political process, corporation, parent, spouse...