suspicious

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  1. adjective Arousing or apt to arouse suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
  2. adjective Tending to suspect; distrustful: a suspicious nature.
  3. adjective Expressing suspicion: a suspicious look.

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  • Such a thing had never before been possible to my practical intelligence, and it made me feel suspicious--suspicious about myself. —  Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories
  • If a woman is, what they perhaps would call "suspicious"--then there is a man's influence behind her--so find the man (and it is easy) and she is as plain as a card on the table. —  Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated
  • It may be thou art over-suspicious, and without a cause as some are: if it be octimestris partus_, born at eight months, or like him, and him, they fondly suspect he got it; if she speak or laugh familiarly with such or such men, then presently she is naught with them; such is thy weakness; whereas charity, or a well-disposed mind, would interpret all unto the best. —  The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • That did look mysterious and suspicious--very pleasantly suspicious I'll bet that's for us," declared Marmaduke You just bet it is!" —  Half-Past Seven Stories
  • His appearance was rather suspicious--that of a ragamuffin, in fact. —  The Created Legend
 

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  1. from French suspicieux = Spanish sospechoso = Italian sospizioso, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus, full of suspicion, from suspicio(n-), suspicion: see suspicion.
 

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