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suspicious |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: suspicious adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: {leery}, {mistrustful}, {untrusting}, {wary}] 2: (informal) not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: {fishy}, {funny}, {queer}, {shady}, {suspect}]
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