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suspicious
/səˈspɪʃəs/
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What does suspicious mean?
adjective
- Arousing suspicion.
- Distrustful or tending to suspect.
- 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.
The appearance of a number of screens in the midst of thick grass means that the enemy wants to make us suspicious.
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And she had been at the Shivering Sand, that evening, under circumstances which were highly suspicious, to say the least of them.
A little cask of suspicious appearance was smuggled into the cabin from the wagon, and heightens the hilarity a little, I fear.
But still suspicious they continued their circling movements, their attention so concentrated upon their quarry that they had not observed another move.