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Suspicious Meaning & Definition
Suspicious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Suspicious?

[adj] (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"
[adj] openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

Synonyms | Synonyms for Suspicious: distrustful | fishy | funny | leery | mistrustful | queer | questionable | shady | suspect | untrusting | wary

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Suspicious In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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