Crossword clues for suspiciously
suspiciously
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspicious \Sus*pi"cious\, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See Suspicion.]
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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.
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Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance.
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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.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context manner English) In a way suggesting suspicion. 2 (context manner English) In a way that arouses suspicion. 3 (context evaluative English) Causing suspicion. 4 (context degree English) To a degree that makes one suspect something.
WordNet
adv. with suspicion; "she regarded the food suspiciously"
Usage examples of "suspiciously".
This event is so suspiciously close in time to the anointment that we must consider a direct connection between the two.
They saw more dwarves, traveling in troops, heavily armed, peering up at the humans suspiciously from under their bushy brows.
Her mother came in and asked why she was on the bed, but not at all suspiciously.
One of my favorite pictures shows Soliman in his nifty palace at Constantinople, reclining not unvoluptuously upon a sinfully upholstered sofa with his whiskers, his chibouk and his memories, about to receive a cup of his special brew from a damsel who may be a Nubian slave, but who looks suspiciously like a houri.
Hard-faced fellows in white-painted breastplates and conical helmets with what looked like horsetails for crests, they ran impassive eyes over the cloaked women, lingering suspiciously a moment on Mat for some reason, and then returned to leaning on their halberds and staring blankly at the road.
It starts with good intentions, but all too often results in a gerontocracy of habit-ridden minds in robot-tended bodies, suspiciously jealous of any thought or idea not their own.
The Gynander sits down in the dirt beside her, sets the lamp nearby, and she can feel the black holes where its eyes should be watching her, wary nothingness peering suspiciously out from the slits in its mask.
I saw another patch of kahawai acting suspiciously, so I stalked it, and soon had another strike.
He was clad in a robe of blood red girded with a spotted hide that looked suspiciously like that of Kalimba and he brandished a white-tipped spear.
Dobson, the licensee, was speaking with two constables about Hooper being on the premises and acting suspiciously.
Nayland Smith, who again had been peering suspiciously about into the shadows, struck a match and lighted the lantern which he carried.
Malko suspiciously like the laser-resistant cloth combat fatigues were made of, with a hand maser tucked into a pocket and an autoshot resting on her right shoulder, took them up to see Carl.
Figgis stared suspiciously at Richard until he got into the elevator and vanished from sight, then he returned his attention to the naughty teenage nymphets, none of whom, he was beginning to suspect, was ever likely to see twenty-nine again, lollipops or no lollipops.
A small squad of men in black came from the matter transmitter and looked about suspiciously as they were greeted in the rude hall that was the largest building, though they warmed considerably when Osie stepped gracefully before them.
General Bronson puffed suspiciously, from behind a freshly lit panatela with General Nicholi closely flanking him on the left.