Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of suspecting something on little or no evidence.
- noun The condition of being suspected, especially of wrongdoing.
- noun The state or feeling of having no confidence or certainty about something; distrust.
- noun A minute amount or slight indication; a trace.
- transitive verb To suspect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of suspecting; the feeling of one who suspects; the sentiment or passion which is excited by signs of evil, danger, or the like, without sufficient proof; the imagination of the existence of something, especially something wrong, without proof or with but slight proof.
- noun Thought.
- noun Suggestion; hint; small quantity; slight degree.
- noun Synonyms Jealousy, distrust, mistrust, doubt, fear, misgiving.
- To regard with suspicion; suspect; mistrust; doubt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.
- noun colloq. Slight degree; suggestion; hint.
- transitive verb Obs. or Low To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong. - noun The condition of being suspected.
- noun
Uncertainty ,doubt . - noun A
trace , orslight indication . - noun The imagining of something without
evidence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun being of a suspicious nature
- noun an impression that something might be the case
- noun doubt about someone's honesty
- noun the state of being suspected
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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My main suspicion is that it's the weather changing - specifically the higher pressure.
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The prudence of these worthy friends they term suspicion, and their experience dotage.
Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies
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My suspicion is that energy conservation and better batteries may be the "killer app" for nanotechnology over the next decade.
Nanotechnology and the Great Race, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Of course, the suspicion is that the Stimulus money is not meant for things like unemployment or highway funding … not now, at least.
Matthew Yglesias » Obstructionism from Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) Boosting Lord’s Resistance Army
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My suspicion is that the parental (and high school) emphasis on extra-curricular resume is an error based on the way that things used to be, when elite colleges used to be focused on the upper classes and their specific cultural values.
Back to School Edition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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But my suspicion is that he will end up like Randall Cunnignham, another fantastic all around athelete who didn't make it as a quarterback.
Economic Arguments, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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My suspicion is that threshold effects (e.g. name recognition) and declining marginal value effects (e.g. airwave saturation) dominate political advertising, and therefore the main outcome of campaign finance restrictions is to strengthen establishment candidates (and Republicans, generally) over outsider candidates.
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And my suspicion is that the ultimate goal of teaching any and all of these books is really just to find something the kids "can relate to," itself a goal without substance as far as teaching is concerned.
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His erect position in itself started to drive the webs of suspicion from the dog's mind; and when he spoke peremptorily, with the sound of whip-lashes in his voice, the dog rendered its customary allegiance and came to him.
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My suspicion is that the java fern, which has nearly taken over the entire tank, may have been hiding bits of detrius -- food, waste, rotten eggs (from the multiple spawnings of the minnows), and any number of other ugliness.
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