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suspicious

/səˈspɪʃəs/

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What does suspicious mean?

adjective

  1. Arousing suspicion.
  2. Distrustful or tending to suspect.
  3. Expressing suspicion

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IPA pronunciation

/səˈspɪʃəs/

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When he cannot praise, he delivers himself of a silence so marked that a suspicious person could mistake it for suppressed criticism.
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70
The appearance of a number of screens in the midst of thick grass means that the enemy wants to make us suspicious.
active 6th century B.C. SunziThe Art of WarTranslated by Lionel GilesProject Gutenberg ebook #132
More book examples (3)
And she had been at the Shivering Sand, that evening, under circumstances which were highly suspicious, to say the least of them.
Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstoneProject Gutenberg ebook #155
A little cask of suspicious appearance was smuggled into the cabin from the wagon, and heightens the hilarity a little, I fear.
Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) BirdA Lady's Life in the Rocky MountainsProject Gutenberg ebook #755
But still suspicious they continued their circling movements, their attention so concentrated upon their quarry that they had not observed another move.
Frederick Arthur Ambrose TalbotAeroplanes and Dirigibles of WarProject Gutenberg ebook #793