half-suspicious

He was half-suspicious I was having some kind of late onset midlife crisis.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Carrie looked at him askance, half-suspicious of an appeal.

Sister Carrie 2004

"I cannot understand the child's aversion," said Mr. Dundas in a half-musing, half-suspicious way.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

At Nan's appearance, drawn by curiosity, some of them approached her gingerly, half-suspicious, half as though anxious to make friends, and, knowing no fear of animals, she thrust her hand through the bars and stroked the great heads and necks.

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

The others glanced from one to the other with doubtful and half-suspicious looks.

Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

While Elizabeth watched the tender association of Nathan Hornby and his wife and found such glowing tribute in her heart toward the life they lived together, a tragedy, in spite of the support and affection lavished by a faithful wife, was to leave the sunny, cordial man a broken, half-suspicious one.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

It cost him a pretty sum to purchase the confidence of half-suspicious porters, but by the time he had worked through the list with which the friendly servitor had provided him he had come to the conclusion that

High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn Anonymous

We leaned our elbows on the parapet, and stared in silence all in a row, stared at in turn by the more than half-suspicious sentries.

The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

In later Russian history he must show us priest and noble, merchant and serf, changing slowly from the days when Ivan the Terrible warred against Bátory, the Magyar king of Poland, until the present moment, when with half-suspicious eyes the people of the Czar watch their remote Bulgarian kinsmen standing before the last European stronghold of the Turk.

I. History as Literature 1913

Scott's eyes still regarded him with a puzzled, half-suspicious expression.

Greatheart 1910