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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suspiciously
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
act
▪ The victim was attacked after spotting the men acting suspiciously at 3.25am outside his house in Bracknell, Berks.
▪ Conor Matthews is blowing his lines and acting suspiciously like a drunk.
▪ I had Carradine walled up and down the street several times, acting suspiciously.
▪ So when she sees a driver acting suspiciously, she calls the police.
▪ Employees of oil companies in the city have been warned to be on the alert for anyone acting suspiciously near their offices.
▪ And police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anyone acting suspiciously.
▪ Police have appealed to anyone who may have seen people acting suspiciously in the area of the hospital to contact them.
▪ The 51-year-old noticed the youths acting suspiciously in a Middlesbrough pub.
ask
▪ What do you mean? he asked suspiciously.
look
▪ Cranston looked suspiciously at his wife.
▪ He stared at the students; this fresh batch looked suspiciously like the one that had just left.
▪ She looked suspiciously and said how far, how long etc.
▪ Yet classes obviously existed; so did something that looked suspiciously like class conflict.
▪ Not quite, but this looks suspiciously like the death throes.
▪ Then a thick envelope arrived in the mail, containing something that looked suspiciously like airline tickets.
▪ He looked suspiciously at the man next to him.
▪ That was really funny and he looked suspiciously close to laughter.
sound
▪ It sounds suspiciously like getting everything without working for it.
▪ The question sounded suspiciously like a setup.
▪ That sounds suspiciously like sports, I think to myself.
▪ At first such logic sounds suspiciously circular, but that is its beauty.
▪ Instead, the rookie analyst sounded suspiciously like a veteran house man.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The soldiers watched us suspiciously.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first such logic sounds suspiciously circular, but that is its beauty.
▪ But in fact the similarities between you and Sybil are quite incredible - suspiciously so.
▪ In his known letters, Degas was as suspiciously silent about photography as his Impressionist associates.
▪ She studied me suspiciously and this strengthened my belief that Ralemberg had his own secrets.
▪ Something deep inside her stirred suspiciously, but no, it wasn't possible.
▪ The girl sitting next to her is somber and watches the teacher suspiciously.
▪ The soldiers regarded us suspiciously, but finally turned back to the partition where another woman was moaning in pain.
▪ Watching a neighbour put up a suspiciously large extension for which he supposedly has permission.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspiciously

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.

Wiktionary
suspiciously

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
suspiciously

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.