Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who suspects.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who suspects.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of suspector.

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Examples

  • It was impossible to avoid the feeling which the prophet's winged words had fanned, that here was a sullen, professional suspecter of men overwhelmed by a prouder and purer spirit of natural liberty and health.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • It was impossible to avoid the feeling which the prophet's winged words had fanned, that here was a sullen, professional suspecter of men overwhelmed by a prouder and purer spirit of natural liberty and health.

    The Innocence of Father Brown: The Eye of Apollo Gilbert Keith 1911

  • And maybe you know how a good lively suspecter can get results when she keeps followin 'it up.

    Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • It was impossible to avoid the feeling which the prophet's winged words had fanned, that here was a sullen, professional suspecter of men overwhelmed by a prouder and purer spirit of natural liberty and health.

    The Innocence of Father Brown 1905

  • It was impossible to avoid the feeling which the prophet’s winged words had fanned, that here was a sullen, professional suspecter of men overwhelmed by a prouder and purer spirit of natural liberty and health.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • It was impossible to avoid the feeling which the prophet’s winged words had fanned, that here was a sullen, professional suspecter of men overwhelmed by a prouder and purer spirit of natural liberty and health.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

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