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suspicious /səˈspɪʃəs /adjective1Having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something: he was suspicious of her motives she gave him a suspicious look...- No wonder people are suspicious of politicians and the political process.
- In fact he was suspicious of any technological advance that might weaken the ‘master race’.
- She is suspicious of doctors and nurses and takes her medication only episodically.
Synonyms doubtful, unsure, dubious, wary, chary, sceptical, distrustful, mistrustful, disbelieving, having reservations, apprehensive, cynical, jaundiced informal iffy 1.1Causing one to have the idea or impression that someone or something is questionable, dishonest, or dangerous: they are not treating the fire as suspicious...- The death was initially treated as suspicious and Hardy was questioned.
- I actually think there is something suspicious in the idea from the start.
- You mentioned the suspicious package was left in front of that precinct building.
Synonyms disreputable, unsavoury, dubious, suspect, guilty-looking, dishonest-looking, strange-looking, queer-looking, funny-looking, slippery informal shifty, shady British informal dodgy questionable, odd, strange, dubious, irregular, queer, funny, doubtful, not quite right, under suspicion, mysterious, murky, dark, criminal, dishonest, corrupt informal fishy, shady, dodgy 1.2Having the belief or impression that someone is involved in an illegal or dishonest activity: police were called when staff became suspicious...- A firm in the USA became suspicious about the activities of an employee.
- As someone who works in the unions, what do you tell activists who are suspicious about the union movement?
- As the scam unfolded that night in the studio, production staff became suspicious.
Derivativessuspiciousness /səˈspɪʃəsnəs/ noun ...- Another couple shared the cab with us, all of us casting our New York-trained suspiciousness of strangers to the winds.
- As individual paranoia involves the ‘irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others,’ so too does news media thrive on the next big terror.
- I recognise the imperial shelteredness, the island suspiciousness, the old-world cultivation of private hopes and habits which leave the status quo alone.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French suspicious, from Latin suspiciosus, from suspicio(n-) (see suspicion). Rhymesadventitious, Aloysius, ambitious, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, meretricious, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, vicious |