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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suspicious
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 something illegal has happened)
▪ Officers said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Yet it will strike others as suspicious, if well meaning, sleight-of-hand.
▪ Police are treating both fires as suspicious and damage is estimated at £40,000.
▪ Originally, the Middlesbrough man's death was treated as suspicious and the pub sealed off as police questioned teatime drinkers.
▪ Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
▪ Police confirmed they were not treating the fire as suspicious.
▪ Not suspect: Police are not treating the death of woman found in Cleveland woods as suspicious.
deeply
▪ David Widgery was deeply immersed in student politics, and deeply suspicious of It.
▪ It's hardly surprising that we should be deeply suspicious of any attempt to deal with a subject as charged as rape.
▪ She's deeply suspicious of the circumstances.
▪ He is deeply suspicious about Western intentions on his continent.
▪ This liberty was short-lived however. parliament, deeply suspicious of the King's intentions, proclaimed his Declaration illegal in February.
▪ His refusal to compromise and his deeply suspicious nature was spoiling the pleasure of actually being part of the group.
highly
▪ Obviously he behaved in a highly suspicious manner today, but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things.
▪ The one on the rock looked over slowly, highly suspicious.
▪ He found two types, the highly suspicious and the willing business partners.
▪ She thinks he's a highly suspicious character.
▪ She thinks Alexander is a highly suspicious character, although that wouldn't require any great acumen on anyone's part.
▪ All the members are highly suspicious.
▪ We don't know him, we don't trust him and we think he's a highly suspicious character.
▪ Volunteering a wager was unprecedented, therefore highly suspicious.
more
▪ But what made any one boat more suspicious than another?
▪ This tendency has the unfortunate consequence of making program administrators less open to evaluation and more suspicious of its value.
▪ If not, be even more suspicious.
▪ With a more interfering Prime Minister and a more suspicious Foreign Secretary it would not have been a happy arrangement.
▪ The difference theorists are more suspicious than their colleagues in the dominance current of traditional value-judgements about the way women talk.
▪ I removed the envelope and decided to dump the book which, empty, was probably even more suspicious.
▪ Hayling relayed the pressure back to the ever more suspicious comrades.
▪ She should have been more suspicious.
so
▪ But what I'd dearly love to know is what on earth made him so suspicious of me?
very
▪ Mr Jarvis had recommended me, but he was very suspicious at first.
▪ Louka is also plagued by the police who are very suspicious about his bogus marriage.
▪ Another interview revealed that ever since childhood she had been very suspicious of strangers.
▪ Check this out. Very suspicious.
▪ They were a very suspicious family.
▪ We should also be very suspicious of any codification project which attempts to pre-empt or disguise the irreducibly dispositive element in decision-making.
▪ The way Tony DeFries went at it made me very suspicious.
▪ But it should make us very suspicious.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ But everyone is advised to remain on their guard and keep vigilant for any suspicious activity.
▪ Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
▪ Sometimes, traders on the stock-exchange floors will report suspicious activity.
▪ Newspapers admonished citizens to report any suspicious activity, encouraging them to spy on each other.
▪ Constantly observe spectators for suspicious activity.
character
▪ She thinks he's a highly suspicious character.
▪ She thinks Alexander is a highly suspicious character, although that wouldn't require any great acumen on anyone's part.
▪ We don't know him, we don't trust him and we think he's a highly suspicious character.
▪ We had a couple of suspicious characters but their alibis are watertight.
▪ Her murdered sister's widower, who, being an estate agent, is clearly a suspicious character.
▪ Why, if either Black or his friends were suspicious characters, would they first contact the police?
circumstances
▪ Police say there are no suspicious circumstances and a coroner has been informed.
▪ A hose pipe was connected to the exhaust. police said there were no suspicious circumstances.
▪ There were no suspicious circumstances and a postmortem was due to be carried out later.
▪ Police said cause had not been established but there were not thought to have been suspicious circumstances.
▪ Apart from anything else, if there were suspicious circumstances, the doctor wouldn't have signed a certificate.
▪ Voice over A postmortem has revealed the man died from natural causes, there are no suspicious circumstances.
▪ Police said there were no suspicious circumstances.
▪ Furthermore, people are more likely to report suspicious circumstances surrounding an individual who appears to be of lower-class origin.
look
▪ She threw him a suspicious look.
▪ The gaunt, grey-haired sergeant fixes me with a studiously suspicious look and takes a note of my name and the time.
▪ Husband came back, also distributing suspicious looks, and sat down.
mind
▪ Those with suspicious minds may wonder why such sweeping action has been taken.
▪ You have a suspicious mind, Michael Riven, but my own goes along with it.
▪ The newspaper argued that the ordinary reader, possessed of a fairer and less suspicious mind, would presume innocence.
▪ It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders.
package
▪ Investigators responded to the two locations after they received calls of suspicious packages in the mail.
▪ Washington area police also responded to dozens of calls for suspicious packages, all of which turned out to be false alarms.
▪ Helicopters will fly overhead, and police robots will be available to handle suspicious packages that might contain explosives.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have a right to be angry/concerned/suspicious etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A full murder inquiry was launched after the company chairman died in suspicious circumstances.
▪ Butler has been involved in several suspicious business deals.
▪ He glanced around, satisfied that nobody was taking any notice of his suspicious behaviour, then opened the door.
▪ His employer became suspicious about the amount of money he was claiming for expenses.
▪ I started to get suspicious when I found a hotel bill in Sarah's pocket.
▪ It all seems very suspicious to me. Where did he get all that money from?
▪ The circumstances surrounding McBain's death are suspicious.
▪ The local people were suspicious of me because of my somewhat unusual lifestyle.
▪ The officials we met in the capital looked suspicious and tense, as if they were expecting us to declare war on them.
▪ The police were suspicious of Simpson because his story did not quite make sense.
▪ The public have been asked to report anything suspicious at once.
▪ The tone of Danny's voice made Nancy suspicious.
▪ There was a suspicious-looking man standing in a doorway across the street.
▪ There was a suspicious silence as I opened the door.
▪ We thought his behaviour was suspicious and called the police immediately.
▪ You have a very suspicious mind, Mary. No, I had nothing to do with this.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I also had a suspicious, ungenerous feeling about the reluctance of the white teachers to make use of more realistic books.
▪ She's deeply suspicious of the circumstances.
▪ She should have been more suspicious.
▪ The bruises join a growing list of suspicious marks found on Katelyn in the final 15 weeks of her life.
▪ We hide behind our men, peeping at each other in a curious and suspicious fashion.
▪ What had become of the suspicious anti-warrior of the sixties, casting reproachful glances at the Temple University computer center?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspicious

Suspicious \Sus*pi"cious\, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See Suspicion.]

  1. 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 the person he suspects.
    --South.

    Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other.
    --Pope.

  2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.

    We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance.
    --Swift.

  3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.

    I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.
    --Shak.

    Syn: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful; questionable. See Jealous. [1913 Webster] -- Sus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Sus*pi"cious*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suspicious

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 of suspicion, inclined to suspect" in English is attested from c.1400. Poe (c.1845) proposed suspectful to take one of the two conflicting senses. Related: suspiciously; suspiciousness.

Wiktionary
suspicious

a. 1 arousing suspicion. 2 distrustful or tending to suspect. 3 express suspicion

WordNet
suspicious

  1. adj. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary]

  2. 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, suspect]

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.