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suspicious

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sus·pi·cious  (s-spshs)
adj.
1. Arousing or apt to arouse suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
2. Tending to suspect; distrustful: a suspicious nature.
3. Expressing suspicion: a suspicious look.

sus·picious·ly adv.
sus·picious·ness n.

suspicious
Adjective
1. causing one to suspect something is wrong: suspicious activities
2. unwilling to trust: I'm suspicious of his motives
suspiciously adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.suspicioussuspicious - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
distrustful - having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson
2.suspicious - not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
questionable - subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"

suspicious
adjective 2. suspect, dubious, questionable, funny, doubtful, dodgy Brit., Austral., N.Z. (informal) queer, irregular, shady (informal) fishy (informal) of doubtful honesty, open to doubt or misconstruction, shonky Austral., N.Z. (informal) << OPPOSITE beyond suspicion
adjective 3. odd, strange, mysterious, dark, dubious, irregular, questionable, murky (informal) shady (informal) fishy
Translations

suspicious [səsˈpɪʃəs] adj (= suspecting) → receloso (= causing suspicion); sospechoso;
to be suspicious of or about sb/sth → tener sospechas de algn/algo
suspicious [səsˈpɪʃəs] suspicion adj (= suspecting) → soupçonneux/euse, méfiant(e) (= causing suspicion); suspect(e);
to be suspicious of or about sb/sth → avoir des doutes à propos de qn/sur qch, trouver qn/qch suspect(e)
suspicious [səsˈpɪʃəs] suspicion adj (suspecting) → misstrauisch;
(causing suspicion) → verdächtig;
to be suspicious of or about sb/sth suspicion → jdn/etw mit Misstrauen betrachten
suspicious [səsˈpɪʃəs] adj (= suspecting) → sospettoso/a (= causing suspicion); sospetto/a;
to be suspicious of or about sb/sth → nutrire sospetti nei riguardi di qn/qc


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There was not a more suspicious man, nor a more stout.
If I were suspicious,' I replied, 'I should have discovered your infamy long before.
The Trojans were suspicious of the wooden horse and standing round it debated what they ought to do.
 
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