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  • 51inconvincible — I adjective cynical, disbelieving, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful doubting, dubious, given to suspicion, hard to convince, inclined to suspect, incredulous, indisposed to believe, questioning, skeptical, slow to believe, suspecting,… …

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  • 52jealous — I adjective begrudging, competitive, covetous, desiring, desirous, discontented, disposed to envy, dissatisfied, distrustful, doubting, envious, greedy, grudging, invidus, lividus, longing, possessive, rival, suspicious II index resentful,… …

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  • 53leery — I adjective afraid, apprehensive, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, entertaining suspicion, frightened, guarded, heedful, hesitant, hesitating, in doubt, mistrustful, questioning, shy of, skeptical,… …

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  • 54skeptical — I adjective agnostic, cynical, disbelieving, distrustful, distrusting, doubting, dubious, faithless, free thinking, heretical, heterodox, iconoclastic, incredulous, questioning, quizzical, scoffing, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving, uncertain …

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  • 55shy — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonic, about the bush, afraid, agnostic, apprehensive, around the bush, arrested, averse, avert, avoid, back down, backhanded, backward, balance, balk, bankrupt in, bare of, bashful, be startled, bear off, beat… …

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  • 56cynical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. misanthropic, sneering, satirical, pessimistic, distrustful, sarcastic, cutting, disdainful, contemptuous, censorious; surly, snarling, captious. See contempt, disapprobation, malevolence.Ant.,… …

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  • 57leery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj., informal, wary, distrustful, suspicious. See caution. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. cautious, doubting, uncertain; see suspicious 1 , 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. wary, guarded, suspicious,… …

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  • 58paranoid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. paranoiac; fearful, suspicious, distrustful. adj. paranoiac; alarmist, pessimist. See insanity, fear. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. affected by paranoia, unreasonably distrustful, overly suspicious,… …

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  • 59doubtful — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Ambiguous] Syn. in doubt, questionable, problematic, vague, indistinct, unclear, indefinite, undetermined, unresolved, open to doubt, in question, equivocal, unsure, indeterminate, under examination, debatable,… …

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  • 60suspicious — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Entertaining suspicion] Syn. jealous, distrustful, suspecting, doubting, questioning, wary, leery, doubtful, dubious, suspect, in doubt, without faith, skeptical, unbelieving, without belief, wondering. Ant. trusting*,… …

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