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suspicious
[ suh-spish-uhs ]
adjective
- tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable:
suspicious behavior.
- inclined to suspect, especially inclined to suspect evil; distrustful:
a suspicious tyrant.
Synonyms: wary, mistrustful
- full of or feeling suspicion.
- expressing or indicating suspicion:
a suspicious glance.
suspicious
/ səˈspɪʃəs /
adjective
- exciting or liable to excite suspicion; questionable
- disposed to suspect something wrong
- indicative or expressive of suspicion
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Derived Forms
- susˈpiciousness, noun
- susˈpiciously, adverb
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Other Words From
- sus·picious·ly adverb
- sus·picious·ness noun
- hyper·sus·picious adjective
- hyper·sus·picious·ly adverb
- hyper·sus·picious·ness noun
- over·sus·picious adjective
- over·sus·picious·ly adverb
- over·sus·picious·ness noun
- presus·picious adjective
- presus·picious·ly adverb
- presus·picious·ness noun
- self-sus·picious adjective
- super·sus·picious adjective
- super·sus·picious·ly adverb
- super·sus·picious·ness noun
- unsus·picious adjective
- unsus·picious·ly adverb
- unsus·picious·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of suspicious1
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Example Sentences
They apparently took that as a sign of suspicious activity, even though that can be a hallmark of people on the autism spectrum.
Onscreen, Teller is a bit like a young Vince Vaughn—gregarious, charming, and a tad suspicious.
Black people, especially young black men, are regarded as suspicious, threatening and potentially dangerous.
With this track record, how could the American people be anything other than suspicious of war?
Over dinner, an elderly waitress at a nearby restaurant thought the timing of the attack was suspicious.
It is a vile world because it is an under-educated world, unreasonable, suspicious, base and ferocious.
Why did he not exercise more precaution when investigating anything so suspicious as a concealed fire?
"I ask no promise from you," continued the excited and suspicious man, writhing under a sense of his helplessness.
And here he might have stopped with safety; but his roused, suspicious, sensitive nature, would not suffer him.
James Otis recovered from a temporary fit of insanity only to grow strangely suspicious of Samuel Adams.
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