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sus⋅pi⋅cious

  [suh-spish-uhs]
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–adjective
1. tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
2. inclined to suspect, esp. inclined to suspect evil; distrustful: a suspicious tyrant.
3. full of or feeling suspicion.
4. expressing or indicating suspicion: a suspicious glance.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < L suspīciōsus, equiv. to suspīci- (see suspicion ) + -ōsus -ous

Related forms:
sus⋅pi⋅cious⋅ly, adverb
sus⋅pi⋅cious⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. suspect, dubious, doubtful. 2. mistrustful, wary, disbelieving.
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sus·pi·cious   (sə-spĭsh'əs)   
adj.  
  1. Arousing or apt to arouse suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
  2. Tending to suspect; distrustful: a suspicious nature.
  3. Expressing suspicion: a suspicious look.
sus·pi'cious·ly adv., sus·pi'cious·ness n.
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Suspicious

Sus*pi"cious\, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See Suspicion.]

1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. --South.

Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other. --Pope.

2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.

We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance. --Swift.

3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.

I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could. --Shak.

Syn: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful; questionable. See Jealous. -- Sus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Sus*pi"cious*ness, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : suspicious
Spanish: desconfiado,
German: mißtrauisch,
Japanese: 疑う
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