suspicion
noun
act of suspecting.
self-suspicion
-
a word derived from
suspicion.
Example Sentences
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SZA said the experience — of persistent self-suspicion colliding with overwhelming external praise — had so unmoored her that she came up with a name for the condition: “dysmorphia.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2018
In the age of the selfie, Brooks wishes to exhort us back to a semiclassical sense of self-restraint, self-erasure and self-suspicion.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2015
But perhaps my reaction to the National is a healthy form of self-suspicion.
From Slate ● May 28, 2013
His understanding is always at its meridian—you never see the first dawn, the early streaks.—He has no falterings of self-suspicion.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Who has not blushed at the self-suspicion of blushing?
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
