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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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"Suspicious" Quotes from Famous Books

... officers, some of them are very good fellows and some of them are not; but already they have each of them instinctively adopted the old attitude of the Legations towards one another. They are mutually suspicious. The detachment officers are also considerably tired and in very bad tempers, for the night has been turned into day with a regularity which cannot leave anybody very happy. Then dirt is accumulating, too, sad truth; and in the East you ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

... theory put forward in the coffee-house, and made suspicious by her presence at that strange hour, "nobody that was acquainted with Mrs Duncomb is wanted here until the murderer is discovered. Look out your ...

— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure

... soon, but if the mother herself went the daughter would be sure to be caught by kidnapers, or fall into prostitution anyway, as the only means she would have of getting along without her mother's protection. Mr. Lister said before the Commission: "I became suspicious of the whole system of convictions against houses for Chinese. I was certain that the informers could not be depended on for one moment. My inspector employed his own boatmen as informers. I became convinced ...

— Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers • Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew and Katharine Caroline Bushnell

... Brahma by attaining to which men of wisdom have not to come back. I desire also to know that which is called Destructible and That into which this universe enters when destroyed. Indeed, what is That which is said to be indestructible, suspicious, beneficial and free from evil of ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown

... half a mile, but there is no hurry. Let us walk," said he. "Don't drop the instruments, I beg. Your arrest as a suspicious character would be a most ...

— The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans • Arthur Conan Doyle

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