suspiciously

[suh-spish-uhs]

sus·pi·cious

[suh-spish-uhs]
adjective
1.
tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
2.
inclined to suspect, especially 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; Middle English < Latin suspīciōsus, equivalent to suspīci- (see suspicion) + -ōsus -ous

sus·pi·cious·ly, adverb
sus·pi·cious·ness, noun
hy·per·sus·pi·cious, adjective
hy·per·sus·pi·cious·ly, adverb
hy·per·sus·pi·cious·ness, noun
EXPAND
o·ver·sus·pi·cious, adjective
o·ver·sus·pi·cious·ly, adverb
o·ver·sus·pi·cious·ness, noun
pre·sus·pi·cious, adjective
pre·sus·pi·cious·ly, adverb
pre·sus·pi·cious·ness, noun
self-sus·pi·cious, adjective
su·per·sus·pi·cious, adjective
su·per·sus·pi·cious·ly, adverb
su·per·sus·pi·cious·ness, noun
un·sus·pi·cious, adjective
un·sus·pi·cious·ly, adverb
un·sus·pi·cious·ness, noun
COLLAPSE


1. suspect, dubious, doubtful. 2. mistrustful, wary, disbelieving.

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To suspiciously

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Suspiciously is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Collins
World English Dictionary
suspicious (səˈspɪʃəs)
 
adj
1.  exciting or liable to excite suspicion; questionable
2.  disposed to suspect something wrong
3.  indicative or expressive of suspicion
 
sus'piciously
 
adv
 
sus'piciousness
 
n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT