suspect
verb (used with object)
to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof.
suspectible
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a word derived from
suspect.
Example Sentences
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That compromises the body's immune response, making people more suspectible to the virus.
From Fox News ● Aug. 14, 2021
Most of todyas food is processed and poultry as well as meats are injected with antibotics, so until we build up an immunity to these drugs those suspectible will get sick.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2010
And yet he was keenly suspectible to excitement.
From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath
Of course, the method employed to carbonize the materials is suspectible of variation, but the scientific principles involved are unchangeable, viz.:
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various
"I'm suspectible," said Fisher, either with simplicity or with a baffling irony.
From The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
