suspicious
Origin of suspicious
Synonyms for suspicious
Examples from the Web for suspiciousness
Historical Examples of suspiciousness
Its character for suspiciousness may be gathered from what different writers have said about it.
The Foot-path WayBradford Torrey
Bobby, however, was in a field where suspiciousness could scarcely be overdone.
The Making of Bobby BurnitGeorge Randolph Chester
I have ever held it to be a proof of the suspiciousness of our natures and unworthy.
ValerieFrederick Marryat
There was a suspiciousness about his tone that was almost insulting.
Three Men on the BummelJerome K. Jerome
His defect in his new office was an excess of zeal in suspiciousness.
Sir Walter RaleghWilliam Stebbing
suspicious
- exciting or liable to excite suspicion; questionable
- disposed to suspect something wrong
- indicative or expressive of suspicion
Word Origin and History for suspiciousness
suspicious
"deserving of or exciting suspicion," mid-14c., from Old French suspecious, from Latin suspiciosus "exciting suspicion" (see suspicion). Meaning "full of or inclined to feel suspicion" is attested from c.1400. Edgar Allan Poe (c.1845) proposed suspectful to take one of the two conflicting senses. Related: suspiciously; suspiciousness.