suspicious

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.

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sus·picious·ly adv.

sus·picious·ness n.

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suspicious

Adjective

1. causing one to suspect something is wrong: suspicious activities

2. unwilling to trust: I'm suspicious of his motives

suspiciously adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	suspicious - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary 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" suspect, fishy, funny, shady 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"

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suspicious

adjective 1. distrustful, suspecting, sceptical, doubtful, apprehensive, leery (slang) mistrustful, unbelieving, wary << OPPOSITE trusting

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