suspicious
adjective
tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable.
unsuspiciousness
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a word derived from
suspicious.
Example Sentences
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She had known something all the time, and had been taking advantage of her unsuspiciousness!
From Salted with Fire by George MacDonald
Little did he suspect who his interrogator was, and freely in his unsuspiciousness he entered upon the subject of slave hunting in the Somali country, and Zanzibar, of all things the most interesting to me.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Mr. Beaumont hesitated, and his mother instantly went on with a fluent panegyric upon the hereditary unsuspiciousness of his temper.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Maria Edgeworth
In her apparent ignorance and unsuspiciousness of the whole thing, she seemed so gay, so happy, so sweet and loving, how could I give her a pain?
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
Her utter innocence and unsuspiciousness smote him to the heart.
From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Emma G. Moore
