suspiciousness
Americannoun
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a quality that arouses suspicion or seems to suggest foul play.
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the state or character trait of being suspicious of others; a tendency to suspect foul play or conspiracy; suspicion.
Example Sentences
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Particularly in the case of responses emphasising bizarre thinking and exaggerated suspiciousness, attention should also be paid to assessing mood and self-destructive thinking, as these factors can remain hidden without further enquiry.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
But it’s not difficult to imagine how a machine-generated assessment of suspiciousness could still go wrong—if not next week, then later, when some private club is using a spinoff.
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2023
This ontological insecurity feeds paranoia, which Hofstadter defined as "the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy" that characterizes "more or less normal people" throughout American history.
From Salon • Jul. 31, 2022
In response, they took up what he called the “paranoid style” — an approach to politics characterized by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021
They looked at me with new eyes, and a distance, a suspiciousness came between us.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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