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noun

Suspicion n.

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence. "Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight."

Slight degree; suggestion; hint. (Colloq.) "The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion... of saturnine or sarcastic humor."

Synonyms: Jealousy; distrust; mistrust; diffidence; doubt.

verb

Suspicion v. t. To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt. (Obs. or Low)

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Etymology of 'Suspicion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Suspicion" Quotes from Famous Books

... very fiery," he said with a return of his former calm, "and in them I can read suspicion. Now, you have no right whatever to be suspicious. It is not a right which I can for a moment recognise, and I absolutely refuse ...

— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... they would have to plough with a silver share. In this way, it was insisted, in time he had induced the Lacedaemonians in the nineteenth year of his exile to Lycaeum (whither he had gone when banished on suspicion of having been bribed to retreat from Attica, and had built half his house within the consecrated precinct of Zeus for fear of the Lacedaemonians), to restore him with the same dances and sacrifices with which they had instituted their kings upon the first settlement of Lacedaemon. ...

— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides

... loosen the threads that have begun to get tied, foster national hate, arouse mutual distrust and suspicion, and lead to results the reverse of those aimed at. Assimilative measures adopted by the Government, therefore, should be thought out carefully ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor

... get through the barred window of his room. If they were let loose in the courtyard and recognized as carriers, a bowman could easily bring them down. But now he saw a way to elude suspicion. ...

— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey

... can bear all this, if it be but fruitful of good for my beloved fatherland. But I look up to Almighty God, and ask in humility, whether unscrupulous and mean suspicion shall succeed in stopping the flow of that public and private aid to me, from republican America and from American republicans, without which I cannot organize ...

— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth

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