How to Use trustful in a Sentence

trustful

adjective
  • The rest varied from trembling-lip control of fright to trustful passivity.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Supporters hope the changes, once established, will lead to better policing, a more trustful community and a stronger city.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2021
  • This stems from Porter making Chicago his pre-draft home base because his agency is located here and that agency’s longstanding, trustful relationship with the Bulls.
    K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2018
  • For example, there are young climate activists who are distrustful of politicians and maybe older generations but are very trustful of science.
    Simran Sethi, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
  • However, the poll found Americans are less trustful of other uses of facial recognition technologies.
    Wired, 5 Sep. 2019
  • One option is to create new screening questions about whether respondents trust other people and major institutions — and then weight less trustful respondents more heavily in a poll’s final results.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • That door is being pulled shut by a Chinese leadership less trustful of and interested in integration, and pushed by foreign powers more apprehensive about China’s intentions.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The convenient garments enabled women to work with greater efficiency while building a sophisticated and trustful image.
    Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • People working for companies based overseas are less likely to feel engaged and listened to than their counterparts at headquarters, which can lead to them being less trustful of leadership, a separate Globalization Partners survey found.
    Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Organizing informal team buildings is another practice to keep in touch with colleagues, boost their engagement and create trustful relationships.
    Nadya Knysh, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • Things quickly spiral, though, as the deadly grip of heroin addiction consumes the entirety of Molly's existence, further complicating the path toward a peaceful, trustful reconciliation with each passing day.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • And good quality care in the postnatal period includes continuity of a care provider who would provide consistent information, a trustful relationship, flexibility and recognition of women's personal and cultural contexts, the study added.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 22 Apr. 2020

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