jaundiced
JAWN-distadjMeaning soured by bitterness, envy or distrust
Memory hook seeing through sour YELLOW glasses. Ivy offers Uncle Victor a free cookie, but he squints through his old yellow glasses: “What’s the catch?” His view of everything is jaundiced.
After losing money once, Uncle Victor took a jaundiced view of every bargain.
In context Years of broken promises had given the villagers a jaundiced view of the bridge plan; they assumed it would never be finished, whatever the builders said.
Similar bitter, cynical, distrustful, resentful
Opposite trusting, optimistic
From jaundice, an illness that yellows the skin; people once believed it made everything look yellow to the sufferer, so a jaundiced eye sees the world in a sour light.