Crossword clues for suspect
suspect
- Dodgy American President involved in religious group
- Dodgy American parking in camp
- Have a hunch
- Part of a Clue accusation
- Whodunit character
- Mustard, for one
- Whodunit figure
- Possible culprit
- Doubt innocence of
- Possible perpetrator
- Possible perp
- Person you'll find in the first letters of this puzzle's circled words
- Person who the cops think might be guilty
- Lineup member
- Have qualms about
- Crime drama character
- Colonel Mustard, for one
- Be ready to believe — one of the usual crowd?
- Any character with a token in Clue
- Questionable
- Any character in Clue
- The "who" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant
- Someone who is under suspicion
- A person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law
- The person being sued or accused
- Distrust
- Questionable cult defends American power
- One thought guilty of a crime
- American small change being found in school is dodgy
- Possibly false
- Believe to be guilty
- Dubious sects up for reorganisation
- Dubious character?
- Doubt South American kissed briefly, as you say
- Dodgy religious group includes peculiar aspect
- Dodgy faction keeping us quiet
- Dodgy cult with unique feature for those buying into it
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspect \Sus*pect"\, v. i. To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me.
--Shak.
Suspect \Sus*pect"\, n. [LL. suspectus. See Suspect, a.]
-
Suspicion. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed.
--Fairfax. One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
--Bacon.
Suspect \Sus*pect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suspected; p. pr. & vb. n. Suspecting.]
-
To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more.
--Bacon.From her hand I could suspect no ill.
--Milton. To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
--Addison.-
To look up to; to respect. [Obs.]
Syn: To mistrust; distrust; surmise; doubt.
Suspect \Sus*pect"\, a. [L. suspectus, p. p. of suspicere to look up, admire, esteem, to look at secretly or askance, to mistrust; sub under + specere to look: cf. F. suspect suspected, suspicious. See Spy, and cf. Suspicion.]
-
Suspicious; inspiring distrust. [Obs.]
Suspect [was] his face, suspect his word also.
--Chaucer. -
Suspected; distrusted. [Obs.]
What I can do or offer is suspect.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "suspected of wrongdoing, under suspicion;" mid-14c., "regarded with mistrust, liable to arouse suspicion," from Old French suspect (14c.), from Latin suspectus "suspected, regarded with suspicion or mistrust," past participle of suspicere "look up at, look upward," figuratively "look up to, admire, respect;" also "look at secretly, look askance at," hence, figuratively, "mistrust, regard with suspicion," from assimilated form of sub "up to" (see sub-) + specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)). The notion behind the word is "look at secretly," hence, "look at distrustfully."
"a suspected person," 1590s, from suspect (adj.). Earlier as a noun it meant "a suspicion, mistrust" (late 14c.).
mid-15c. (implied in suspected), from suspect (adj.) and in part from Middle French suspecter or directly from Latin suspectare "to mistrust," frequentative of suspicere. Related: Suspecting.
Wiktionary
1 Viewed with suspicion; suspected. 2 (context nonstandard English) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting. n. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime. v
(context transitive English) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
WordNet
adj. not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, queer, shady, suspicious]
n. someone who is under suspicion
a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused [syn: defendant] [ant: plaintiff]
v. imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" [syn: surmise]
regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in [syn: distrust, mistrust] [ant: trust, trust]
hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
Wikipedia
Suspect is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Dave Lebling and published by Infocom in 1984. It is the last murder mystery Infocom released, bringing an end to a popular genre of titles such as Deadline and The Witness. Like most Infocom titles, it was written in highly portable ZIL and made available for an array of popular computer platforms, including the Apple II, IBM PC, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. It is Infocom's fifteenth game.
Suspect is a 1987 mystery/courtroom film drama starring Cher, Dennis Quaid and Liam Neeson.
Other notable cast members include John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Fred Melamed and Philip Bosco. The film was directed by Peter Yates.
Suspect is a 2008 short film. It was the final graduation project of director Felix Hassenfratz at the Internationale filmschule köln. The story, inspired by true events and based on the documentary The Baker Did It, is set in a southern German province with the Badisch dialect. The film is a co-production with the broadcast stations SWR and ARTE, and supported by a German film fund. Despite its regional emphasis, Suspect is a universal story, focused on human behaviour, a story about love in the face of doubt.
Suspect is a 1960 British thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and John Boulting. It starred Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen, Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence, and was filmed on a limited budget at Shepperton in seventeen days. It was released in the U.S. as The Risk. A young scientist's pioneering work and his acquaintance with subversive anti-government groups attract the attention of the authorities.
In the law enforcement jargon, a suspect is a known person accused or suspected of committing a crime. Police and reporters in the United States often use the word suspect as a jargon when referring to the perpetrator of the offense (perp in dated US slang). However, in official definition, the perpetrator is the robber, assailant, counterfeiter, etc.—the person who actually committed the crime. The distinction between suspect and perpetrator recognizes that the suspect is not known to have committed the offense, while the perpetrator—who may not yet have been suspected of the crime, and is thus not necessarily a suspect—is the one who actually did. The suspect may be a different person from the perpetrator, or there may have been no actual crime, which would mean there is no perpetrator.
A common error in police reports is a witness description of the suspect (as a witness generally describes a perpetrator, while a mug shot is of suspect). Frequently it is stated that police are looking for the suspect, when there is no suspect; the police could be looking for a suspect, but they are surely looking for the perpetrator, and very often it is impossible to tell from such a police report whether there is a suspect or not.
Possibly because of the misuse of suspect to mean perpetrator, police in the early 21st century began to use person of interest, possible suspect, and even possible person of interest, to mean suspect.
Under the judicial systems of the U.S., once a decision is approved to arrest a suspect, or bind him over for trial, either by a prosecutor issuing an information, a grand jury issuing a true bill or indictment, or a judge issuing an arrest warrant, the suspect can then be properly called a defendant, or the accused. Only after being convicted is the suspect properly called the perpetrator.
Suspect is a Whodunit crime mystery program on the children's television channel CBBC. Children attempt to solve crimes committed at the fictional Kilcrammond House Hotel to gain admittance to the Academy of Criminal Investigation (an anagrammatic acronym of the CIA). The show is presented by Simon Grant who plays the part of the hotel manager. The show uses a fictitious crime, which the children must solve. Most crimes have managed to relate to children in some way. There have been various crimes, from theft to sabotage, forgery to food poisoning. The children then attempt to solve the case. They however, know that the offender is one of four presented to them at the start. The children get the chance to use forensics equipment, to check fingerprints, and soil samples. They have the chance to talk to 3 of the 4 suspects, before making their final decision. If the children are correct, they receive entry in to the ACI (Academy of Criminal Investigation).
A suspect is a person suspected of committing a crime.
Suspect or suspects may also refer to:
Usage examples of "suspect".
In truth, she wondered that Tane did not suspect Asara of being an Aberrant, but it seemed that he would rather not know.
After seeing Abie Singleton at the club last night, he suspected sleep was to become but a bitter memory.
Notary take care to set it down that the said abjuration was made by one gravely suspected of heresy, so that if she should be proved to have relapsed, she should then be judged accordingly and delivered up to the secular Court.
But it must be understood that this refers to one who had made her abjuration as one manifestly taken in heresy, or as one strongly suspected of heresy, and not to one who has so done as being under only a light suspicion.
And although, as has been said, a person who is found to be suspected in this way is not to be branded as a heretic, yet he must undergo a canonical purgation, or he must be caused to pronounce a solemn abjuration as in the case of one convicted of a slight heresy.
If he was gravely suspected, and refused to appear when he was summoned to answer for his faith, and was therefore excommunicated and had endured that excommunication obstinately for a year, but becomes penitent, let him be admitted, and abjure all heresy, in the manner explained in the sixth method of pronouncing sentence.
The second is when he has abjured al heresy in general, and yet lapses into another heresy, even if he has never before been suspected or accused of that heresy.
It came to him with the force of a revelation that Cass excelled in everything she did, and that had she not married him all these talents would have died aborning This aroused in him a fierce protectiveness towards her which he had not suspected he possessed.
The negotiator worked to isolate the suspect while at the same time setting himself in a position to wait, psychologically starving out the individual, as here, where Abies had effectively been placed under house arrest.
He held a number of bills, many of which were suspected by him to be forged--that is to say, that the figures had been altered after the signature of the acceptor had been written.
An observing critic who, without being acquainted with us, wished to guess whether love was present at our happy party, might have suspected, perhaps, but he certainly could not have affirmed, that it was there.
Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.
Claire had been scared into concern and politeness, and I was beginning to suspect that it was Aden Fiske who had scared her.
Lady Afy, and to prevent her from suspecting, by his conduct, that anything had occurred, was most painful.
Although he suspected that her gentle massaging was only aggravating the stain, he gave himself over to the feel of her fingers stroking him through the thin layer of his clothing.