suspect
verb (used with object)
to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof.
suspecter
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a word derived from
suspect.
Example Sentences
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And maybe you know how a good lively suspecter can get results when she keeps followin’ it up.
From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford
It was impossible to avoid the feeling which the prophet's winged words had fanned, that here was a sullen, professional suspecter of men overwhelmed by a prouder and purer spirit of natural liberty and health.
From The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
