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suspicious

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "deserving of or exciting suspicion," from Old French sospecious , from Latin suspiciosus , suspitiosus "exciting suspicion, causing mistrust," also "full of suspicion, ready to suspect," from stem of suspicere (see suspicion ). Meaning "full ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 arousing suspicion. 2 distrustful or tending to suspect. 3 express suspicion

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES die in suspicious/mysterious circumstances (= used to say that someone may have been killed ) ▪ He got involved with drug dealers and died in mysterious circumstances. suspicious circumstances (= making you think ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspicious \Sus*pi"cious\, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See Suspicion .] Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery , mistrustful , untrusting , wary ] 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 ...

Usage examples of suspicious.

Clem for something of this kind, yet he had managed things so well that up to the time of his departure she had not been able to remark a single suspicious circumstance, unless, indeed, it were the joyous affectionateness with which he continued to behave, She herself had been passing through a time of excitement and even of suffering.

An actual or latent aggressiveness on the part of any one nation inevitably provokes its neighbors into a defiant and suspicious temper.

All right, the autopsy will show the heart ailment and it will show his system having traces of the medicine, and nobody is going to be suspicious about that.

Customs Station east of Akela, New Mexico, where even poor shady Fred in his suspicious pot had been regarded warily.

Our review of anomalous stone implements should make us suspicious of this sort of charge.

All employees should be trained to immediately report any request for authentication credentials, such as a daily code or password, made under suspicious circumstances.

Ludo Bagman, however, positioned himself between Harry and the sinks, looking very suspicious.

His splendid achievements, the bashaws whom he encountered, the armies that he discomfited, and the three thousand Turks who were slain by his single hand, must be weighed in the scales of suspicious criticism.

I was still dressing, I suddenly saw Piccolomini standing before me, and as he had not sent in his name I began to feel suspicious.

Walker Boh and Morgan Leah and Pe Ell, suspicious cats with sharp eyes and hungry looks, their minds made up as to what they would do in the days that lay ahead and at the same time still quizzing themselves to make certain.

As a boy he had dreamed of finding this lost family treasure, and here in LA the bummer cinematographer, who was also to die in suspicious circumstances, presented the object to him with a stern warning of the negative powers attached to the relic.

Here again are the answer strings from classroom A, now reordered by a computer that has been asked to apply the cheating algorithm and seek out suspicious patterns.

I glanced up the slope, but there was no sign of anything suspicious there, although I knew Chubby must be watching us intently.

The whole affair being in itself very interesting, my attention could not appear extraordinary to Gama, however suspicious he might be naturally, and I was certain that he would not have told me anything if he had guessed the share I had taken in the adventure, and the interest I must have felt in it.

She coveted every bit of information she could glean, but was suspicious of spies.