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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suspicion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a vague suspicion
▪ A vague suspicion began to tug at Benny's mind.
arrest sb on charges/suspicion of (doing) sth
▪ He was arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs.
confirm your fears/doubts/suspicions etc
▪ This just confirms my worst fears.
divert suspicion...from
▪ He’d been trying to divert suspicion away from himself.
finger of suspicion...fell on
▪ The finger of suspicion immediately fell on Broderick.
lingering doubts/suspicions etc
▪ Any lingering hopes of winning the title soon disappeared.
nagging feeling/doubt/suspicion etc
▪ There was still a nagging doubt in the back of her mind.
nasty feeling/suspicion
▪ I had a nasty feeling that a tragedy was going to happen.
treat sb with respect/contempt/suspicion etc
▪ When you treat the kids with respect, they act responsibly.
view sth with caution/suspicion/scepticism etc
▪ The local people viewed newcomers with suspicion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
above
▪ Could you swear to me every one of your circle's above suspicion?
▪ You must be above suspicion of any impropriety.
deep
▪ Anything easy and pleasant aroused deep suspicion and people enjoying themselves were usually less inclined to pay attention to others.
▪ He treated all with deep suspicion.
▪ Added to this was the deep suspicion felt by senior ministers, influential judges and lawyers about purists themselves.
▪ When two ten-year-olds allegedly abducted and murdered the toddler, it confirmed the public's deepest suspicions.
▪ So why do their activities arouse deep suspicion among tax authorities and police forces?
▪ Western society has generated a deep suspicion from which in the main the other arts have been protected.
▪ Everywhere measures to free the grain trade aroused the deepest suspicion and hostility.
great
▪ But the more Downing Street protests, the greater the suspicion that Major is jittery about US-UK relations.
▪ The enigmatic thing was the great pall of suspicion hanging over such an ordinary-appearing man.
▪ I had inspected the water jump with great suspicion before the race.
▪ Those plans are regarded with great suspicion and fear in Moscow.
▪ And a lot of times a video camera is looked upon with great suspicion.
ill
▪ The terrible kindnesses of the evening roused her worst suspicions.
▪ What the connection is we can only hazard a guess at but it confirms all our worst suspicions about anything-core outfits once and for all.
initial
▪ It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off.
▪ There was an initial suspicion that this poison had been ingested by our two patients.
▪ By the 1990s his initial suspicion of television had disappeared.
▪ In this case the initial suspicion must be reasonable, whereupon the person may be held for up to 7 days.
mutual
▪ Instead there would be the dismal apparatus of mutual suspicion familiar to every accountant.
▪ A further conference at La Ferté-Bernard in July 1168 met in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and broke up with nothing achieved.
▪ But at Eindhoven the organisation was unable to prevent fraternisation between the two sides leaping from mutual suspicion into whirlwind romance.
▪ This general detente has not, however, dispelled decades of mutual suspicion.
▪ Newt-bashing camouflages the mutual suspicion between the president and his supposed friends in Congress.
▪ Novel approaches to Roma exclusion may have to be attempted to overcome mutual suspicion.
reasonable
▪ If officers have reasonable suspicion they can still board and search and arrest.
▪ Legislation should be considered to extend statutory protection to auditors so that they can report reasonable suspicion of fraud to investigatory authorities.
▪ The court accepted that these facts amounted to a reasonable suspicion.
▪ But it is not only the concept of reasonable suspicion that has been diluted by police practice and judicial endorsement.
▪ To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised.
▪ Their hunch was held not to amount to a reasonable suspicion.
strong
▪ Even later, there was strong suspicion but never proof.
▪ I have the strongest suspicion, though, that they did it for each other.
■ VERB
allay
▪ Sly had to allay their suspicions and stop them probing any further.
▪ Margaret came from a wealthy family, and Richard was anxious to allay any suspicion that he had married for money.
▪ This huge increase should have allayed the peasants' suspicions of the new regime, but this was hot the case.
▪ To allay suspicion she ate three spoonfuls herself but was found out.
arouse
▪ Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arouse suspicion.
▪ Although it quickly subsided, what I was able to catch was sufficient to arouse suspicion.
▪ Like Miltiades, he had aroused the suspicion of his people that he aimed at supreme power.
▪ In schools the increasing number of para.professionals creeping in under the resources umbrella have understandably aroused suspicions in teachers' union branches.
▪ The two painters downstairs impinge - directly through their crazy behaviour arousing suspicion against themselves, and indirectly through Porfiry.
▪ If she aroused the girl's suspicion all would be lost.
▪ In the current climate, any smooth and unambiguous unity of theory is likely to arouse suspicion.
▪ He sat once again at his desk and began to consider how to get the official document translated without arousing further suspicion.
arrest
▪ Three men were arrested on suspicion of causing violent disorder and were released on police bail.
▪ A man found at the house, Ronald Lerma, 29, was arrested on suspicion of possessing a crack cocaine pipe.
▪ On Nov. 29 a 19-year-old skinhead was arrested under suspicion of arson in connection with the Mölln attack.
▪ Lombardy was stopped and arrested on suspicion of rape by force; rape with a foreign object and false imprisonment.
▪ Kedie was initially arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs when police discovered £2,000 in cash in his house.
▪ In August 1984, Benicia police arrested him on suspicion of molesting a 10-year-old girl.
▪ The following day Gary Burn was arrested by police on suspicion of murder.
▪ When police arrested Nestor Padron on suspicion of skimming meter receipts, he was carrying $ 850 in cash, Maher said.
avoid
▪ It was then that Rudolfo, if he wanted to avoid suspicion, would lead his flock down to the villa.
▪ Brown has said that because he is black, he must do more than others to avoid suspicion.
confirm
▪ A quick check outside confirmed my suspicions: we just weren't going up very fast.
▪ If we guess right, then we confirm his suspicions.
▪ I'd like a chance to confirm my suspicions.
▪ Meanwhile, a company audit confirmed his original suspicions.
▪ A telephone call confirmed my suspicions.
▪ Their placement in a remedial course confirmed their suspicions.
▪ Just then, a tanker drove up from the south and the driver confirmed my suspicions.
▪ Statements like this confirmed our suspicions about self-defeating organizational behavior patterns.
fall
▪ In 1959 Navarro Rubio had not only not immediately fallen under suspicion of disloyalty, but had actually made Franco back down.
▪ As news of his triptych spread, he fell under increasing suspicion.
▪ Because of you, your fellow officers have fallen under suspicion!
hold
▪ Corruption is endemic, and there is a widely held suspicion that the police and army are behind some crimes.
▪ The suspects were held Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder, attempted burglary and conspiracy.
▪ What worried her most of all was that she might be held in equal suspicion.
▪ They were being held without bail on suspicion of conspiracy, possession of explosive devices and burglary.
▪ Four of those arrested are being held on suspicion of armed robbery.
▪ Some people get held on suspicion - I know!
raise
▪ For some reason this topic had raised local suspicions and in correspondence nearly ruled out.
▪ She knew that it would raise too much suspicion for the whole family to leave at once.
▪ He has been on the run since 1963, raising the suspicion that he has bought off the police.
▪ These appeals raise lots of suspicions, for such curricula have traditionally served to exclude working-class people from the classroom.
regard
▪ She regards me with suspicion, but when I hold out my hand, she takes it.
▪ Those plans are regarded with great suspicion and fear in Moscow.
▪ Pleas about competition were regarded with much suspicion and little sympathy by the trade unions.
▪ Any answer that is not basically a selfish one should be regarded with suspicion.
▪ One reason, of particular salience in developing countries, is that services are regarded with considerable suspicion.
▪ Attempts to divide anything into two ought to be regarded with much suspicion...
▪ But there were others too, some drawn from that old left milieu regarded with suspicion by Miles.
▪ All pointed snails should be regarded with suspicion as they have a liking for the foliage of aquatic plants.
throw
▪ Philby remained bitter towards Burgess, whose defection had thrown suspicion on him and ultimately led to his unmasking.
treat
▪ A properly theological response can not treat suspicion merely as a positive or a negative impulse from outside the source of theology.
▪ He treated all with deep suspicion.
▪ Thus, substantive comparison of these countries and the generalizations about civic culture must be treated with suspicion.
▪ Joint-ill can affect the older foal so any lameness should be treated with suspicion.
view
▪ If they viewed me with suspicion then I was much puzzled about them.
▪ But nothing would be viewed with more suspicion than this method of expanding output.
▪ Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion.
▪ This woman is a woman she views with suspicion, and for what reason?
▪ The Prime Minister designate obviously viewed me with suspicion, as being closely associated with his predecessor.
▪ As Lutherans, we viewed pleasure with suspicion.
▪ But those who claimed to know that they were chosen, Calvin viewed with suspicion.
▪ This is the day of the motorist, and anyone who walks is viewed with suspicion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
allay (sb's) fear/concern/suspicion etc
▪ But he failed to allay fears that he will be a fatally flawed candidate when pitted against President Bush next autumn.
▪ In an attempt to allay these concerns, Rhone and other staff members met with citizens from the rehabilitation area several times.
▪ In this way he can discuss current information with his wife and help to allay her fears.
▪ Kelly argues that the removal of the requirement to aid decision-makers would allay fears.
▪ Margaret came from a wealthy family, and Richard was anxious to allay any suspicion that he had married for money.
▪ Sly had to allay their suspicions and stop them probing any further.
▪ Some Alliance supporters made statements that did little to allay such fears.
▪ The virtual extinction of the dragon sister tutor should also help to allay your fears.
arouse hostility/suspicion/resentment/anger etc
▪ Although it quickly subsided, what I was able to catch was sufficient to arouse suspicion.
▪ In schools the increasing number of para.professionals creeping in under the resources umbrella have understandably aroused suspicions in teachers' union branches.
▪ Parked vehicles that arouse suspicion should be reported.
▪ Similarly the threat of a loss arouses anxiety and actual loss causes sorrow, while both situations are likely to arouse anger.
▪ The beguiling simplicity of the flat tax is one reason it arouses suspicion.
▪ The two painters downstairs impinge - directly through their crazy behaviour arousing suspicion against themselves, and indirectly through Porfiry.
▪ They are fascinating and frightening; they arouse anger and they are defiant.
▪ Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arouse suspicion.
be above suspicion/reproach/criticism etc
▪ The motives were above reproach since a large sum was raised for deserving charities every year.
▪ You must be above suspicion of any impropriety.
have a sneaking feeling/suspicion/admiration
niggling doubt/worry/suspicion etc
▪ Almost immediately, the fretting, niggling worries and the sense of fearful anticipation began to return.
▪ Always, in the background, in the dim recesses of her mind, there had been that niggling doubt.
▪ And here a niggling doubt enters the mind.
▪ Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something.
▪ Of course, this is usually so, but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement.
▪ There remains the niggling doubt that this delay has something to do with our muddled sentimentality towards animals.
▪ There was, however, a niggling doubt in the minds of some of the jurors.
plant an idea/doubt/suspicion (in sb's mind)
▪ Their conversation had planted doubts in Dennis' mind about the partnership.
the finger of blame/suspicion
▪ He says it doesn't make sense to point the finger of blame, it's the law that is at fault.
throw suspicion on sb
▪ Philby remained bitter towards Burgess, whose defection had thrown suspicion on him and ultimately led to his unmasking.
under a cloud (of suspicion)
▪ According to the researchers, the new cell actually works better under cloud cover than in full sunlight.
▪ Decades of wallpaper peeling under clouds of dust.
▪ For all these reasons wooden aeroplanes are under a cloud at the moment.
▪ He passes away under a cloud, inscrutable at heart, forgotten, unforgiven, and excessively romantic.
▪ Not only must they care for distressed and disturbed young people, but they must do so under a cloud.
▪ Sometimes the pressure we were under clouded our judgment.
▪ The sight of these two storming along under a cloud of canvas is enough to stir the blood of most landlubbers.
▪ We argued about it, and when I left, I left under a cloud.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ''What's that behind your back?'', Maria said with a look of deep suspicion.
▪ He's been arrested on suspicion of murder.
▪ I had no solid evidence, only vague suspicions.
▪ She had always had a deep suspicion of journalists and reporters.
▪ Terry's grandmother looked at me with suspicion and demanded, "Who's this?"
▪ The money was taken out of the bank in small amounts so as not to arouse suspicion.
▪ The timing of his trip aroused suspicion among his government colleagues.
▪ When I ask about Gerald, Susan's usually kind face clouded with fear and suspicion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A wise suspicion is that such a fate awaits any treaty containing grandiose reductions or harsh enforcement penalties.
▪ Also interested in Rose's financial position would be her husband and - if his suspicions were correct - Hilary Seymour-Strachey.
▪ As Lutherans, we viewed pleasure with suspicion.
▪ In other countries, however, suspicions persist that the weapons and the paramilitary training were put to illegal use.
▪ One bilious attack would have been passed over as something that could happen to anyone; but two aroused suspicion.
▪ That was what she was doing, going along, arousing no suspicion in Brimmer or anyone at the office.
▪ There were suspicions about the role that Conservative Central Office played in orchestrating some of these manoeuvres.
▪ They were being held without bail on suspicion of conspiracy, possession of explosive devices and burglary.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspicion

Suspicion \Sus*pi"cion\, n. [OE. suspecioun, OF. souspe[,c]on, F. soup[,c]on, L. suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is in imitation of L. suspicio mistrust, suspicion. See Suspect, and cf. Suspicious.]

  1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.

    Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight.
    --Bacon.

  2. Slight degree; suggestion; hint. [Colloq.]

    The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
    --A. W. Ward.

    Syn: Jealousy; distrust; mistrust; diffidence; doubt.

Suspicion

Suspicion \Sus*pi"cion\, v. t. To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt. [Obs. or Low]
--South.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suspicion

c.1300, "act of suspecting; unverified conjecture of wrongdoing; mistrust, distrust," from Anglo-French suspecioun, corresponding to Old French suspicion, sospeçon "mistrust, suspicion" (Modern French soupçon), from Late Latin suspectionem (nominative suspectio) "mistrust, suspicion, fear, awe," noun of state from past participle stem of Latin suspicere "look up at" (see suspect (adj.)). Spelling in English influenced 14c. by learned Old French forms closer to Latin suspicionem. Used as a verb meaning "to suspect," it figures in literary representations of U.S. Western (Kentucky) slang from 1830s.\n

\n"Suspicion" words in other Indo-European languages also tend to be words for "think" or "look" with prefixes meaning "under, behind;" such as Greek hypopsia (hypo "under," opsis "sight"), hyponoia (noein "to think"); Lettish aizduomas (aiz "behind," duomat "think"); Russian podozrenie (Slavic podu "under," Old Church Slavonic zireti "see, look"); Dutch achterdocht (achter "behind," denken "to think").

Wiktionary
suspicion

n. 1 (senseid en act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong)The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong. 2 The condition of being suspected. 3 uncertainty, doubt. 4 A trace, or slight indication. 5 The imagining of something without evidence. vb. (context nonstandard dialect English) To suspect; to have suspicions.

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WordNet
suspicion

  1. n. an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: intuition, hunch]

  2. doubt about someone's honesty [syn: misgiving, mistrust, distrust]

  3. the state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion"

  4. being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage" [syn: suspiciousness]

Wikipedia
Suspicion (1941 film)

Suspicion (1941) is a romantic psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also stars Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll. Suspicion is based on Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact (1932).

For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. This is the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film.

In the film, a shy spinster runs off with a charming playboy, who turns out to be penniless, a gambler, and dishonest in the extreme. She comes to suspect that he is also a murderer, and that he is attempting to kill her.

Suspicion

Suspicion may refer to:

  • Suspicion (emotion), a feeling of distrust or perceived guilt for someone or something
Suspicion (R.E.M. song)

"Suspicion" is the fourth and final single released by R.E.M. from their album Up. Unlike previous singles from Up, "Suspicion" was the only single from the album not to chart.

A live version of the song, recorded at Toast Studios in San Francisco, CA 1998, was released as a B-side to the second single from Up, " Lotus", released the following year and peaked at #26 on the UK Singles Chart. This version was included in the German releases of the CD.

Suspicion (manga)

is a manga by Osamu Tezuka, and also the name of one of his books in Kodansha's line of "Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works" books containing a collection of Tezuka's short stories. The stories included in this book are "Suspicion", "Insect Collector", "Insect Collector - The Butterfly Road Smells of Death", "Volcanic Eruption", "Peace Conert", "Activist Student", and "Old Folk's Home".

Suspicion (Terry Stafford song)

"Suspicion" is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman for Elvis Presley which became a major hit in 1964 via a recording by Presley sound-alike Terry Stafford.

Suspicion (emotion)

Suspicion is a cognition of mistrust in which a person doubts the honesty of another person or believes another person to be guilty of some type of wrongdoing or crime, but without sure proof. Suspicion can also be aroused in response to objects that negatively differ from an expected idea. In the US, the courts use the term " reasonable suspicion" in connection with the right of the police to stop people on the street. The word comes from Middle-English via the Old French word "suspicion", which is a variation of the Italian word "sospetto" (a derivative of the Latin term "suspectio", which means "to watch").

Suspicion (TV series)

'Suspicion ' is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1958. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Suspicion (1982 film)

is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Yoshitaro Nomura.

Suspicion (novel)

Suspicion is a crime novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It has also been published as The Quarry. It is the sequel to Dürrenmatt's The Judge and His Hangman.

Suspicion (Les Paul song)

"Suspicion" is a 1948 song co-written by Les Paul and recorded by Les Paul with Fos Carling. The song was released as a single.

Usage examples of "suspicion".

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.

Eminences and of all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion justly conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

And to rage was added fear: fear that once on her own she might complain that he had sexually abused her as a child, and, worse still, that she might voice her suspicions about the fate of some of the young women she had seen in Cromwell Street.

To prevent, therefore, any such suspicions, so prejudicial to the credit of an historian, who professes to draw his materials from nature only, we shall now proceed to acquaint the reader who these people were, whose sudden appearance had struck such terrors into Partridge, had more than half frightened the postboy, and had a little surprized even Mr.

While he was reasoning with himself, whether he should acquaint these poor people with his suspicion, the maid of the house informed him that a gentlewoman desired to speak with him.

I wrote to him and to the friars, and immediately set out, as I told him, almost alone, because all the people were with the Adelantado, and likewise in order to prevent suspicion on his part.

Roy under a cloud of suspicion, it would have worked to his discredit with the naval authorities, and might have resulted in our aeroplane being denied a place in the trials.

His eyes were hard as flint rock when they swept her from head to toe, and Agate was sure they held no small amount of suspicion.

It was, on the contrary, aggressively resolved to assert the rights and the interests of the United States against any suspicion of European aggrandizement.

Joran and Lilla served themselves first, to allay any suspicions that the food was drugged, but the Agnate still refused to eat or drink.

Her late alarming suspicion, concerning its communication, also occurred to her.

The allegation would have less impact and credibility if Casey were out of office, removed because of suspicions about his role.

Lucas had a strong suspicion that Amaryllis was stuffed to her pretty eyeballs with a host of old-fashioned, boring, and very inconvenient virtues.

Lucas was the first to acknowledge that he had no great gift for intuition, but he had a strong suspicion that there was a lot more to the story than Amaryllis implied.

So I could do nothing: once I had deciphered the letter, discovered who had written it, and amassed more evidence, then perhaps I could present a stronger case, but until then I had to keep my suspicions to myself.