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adjective

Suspicious adj.

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." "Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other."

Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear. "We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance."

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."

Synonyms: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful; questionable. See Jealous.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Suspicious" Quotes from Famous Books

... she has retained these traits to the present day. Her great excitability has diminished, it is true, but this is probably due to her having grown more staid with years. Yet a difference is also to be found where her character—her dog-soul—is in question: it may be noticed in the suspicious way in which she now regards people, as though she were "drawing comparisons" between them and herself. We have, in fact, fallen somewhat in her estimation. She "asks"—so to speak—as to where our vaunted superiority may lie, and would seem to compare her ...

— Lola - The Thought and Speech of Animals • Henny Kindermann

... too, that no peddler or agent, or suspicious stranger was to enter the Santa Maria, neither by the front door nor the back. The janitor stood in his uniform at the rear, and the lackey in his uniform at the front, to prevent any such intrusion upon the privacy of the aristocratic Santa Marias. The lackey, who politely directed ...

— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various

... suspicion or meeting Zulus whom the king's word had not reached. Indeed on these occasions I was always accompanied by a guard of swift-footed and armed soldiers sent "to protect me," or more probably to kill me if I did anything that seemed suspicious. ...

— Finished • H. Rider Haggard

... Jewish heart to love all, and live and die for all the races of God's humanity. Friends, relatives, companions, were opposed to her visits among the Brook Farmers. It was intimated to her that there were suspicious persons residing there. She bravely pinned her informers to facts; she made searching inquiries, and, convincing herself, boldly stood by the idea and the Brook Farmers as living symbols of a better and more Christian life, and triumphed over all in ...

— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman

... once went out; but she noticed nothing suspicious, and found all the passages silent and deserted. The spy had probably gone to make his report to his employers. Daniel went down promptly; and, when he came back, he held in his hand a bundle of faded and crumpled papers, which he handed to Papa ...

— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau

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