suspiciouslyadverb
uk/səˈspɪʃ.əs.li/us/səˈspɪʃ.əs.li/suspiciously adverb (DOUBT)
B2 in a way that makes you think that something is wrong:
He looked at her suspiciously.
The children are suspiciously quiet (= are so quiet that they are probably doing something wrong).
His hair is suspiciously black (= looks darker than it should be, and is therefore probably not natural) for a man of his age.
More examples
- The dog eyed me suspiciously and gave a low growl.
- He is suspiciously hard to contact.
- There was a suspiciously large amount of money in his account.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- random
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- weird
- whacky
- whimsical
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Suspecting & questioning
suspiciously adverb (SEEM GUILTY)
in a way that makes you think someone is guilty of something wrong or illegal:
The officers noticed two men acting suspiciously (= as if they were doing something wrong).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- random
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- weird
- whacky
- whimsical
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suspiciously adverb (SEEM LIKELY)
in a way that makes you think something may be true:
She brushed away what looked suspiciously like (= looked as if it probably was) a tear.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Possible and probable
- always
- anything's possible idiom
- arguably
- as never before idiom
- avenue
- course
- lean
- lean towards sth
- liable
- likelihood
- likely
- realm
- sporting chance
- stand
- strange
- stranger things have happened idiom
- strong
- ten
- ten to one idiom
- vista
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