suspicious
sus·pi·cious (-əs)
adjective
- arousing or likely to arouse suspicion in others
- showing or expressing suspicion
- feeling suspicion
- tending habitually to suspect, esp. to suspect evil
Etymology: ME suspecious < OFr < L suspiciosus
suspicious
modif.
Entertaining suspicion
jealous, distrustful, suspecting, doubting, questioning, wary, leery, doubtful, dubious, suspect, in doubt, without faith, skeptical, unbelieving, without belief, wondering. Antonyms
trusting*, trustful, without any doubt of. Arousing suspicion
not quite trustworthy, questionable, queer, suspect, irregular, unusual, uncommon, different, peculiar, open to question, out of line, shady, equivocal, overt, debatable, disputable. Antonyms
regular*, usual, common.
Preposition: of
- motive: The clear implication here is a reminder to be suspicious of the motives of those who advocate a 'one best method ' .
- stranger: You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
- caller: Police are linking the two incidents and reminded elderly and vulnerable people to be suspicious of all unexpected callers.
- intention: This in turn kept the Germans suspicious of the intentions of the French.
Modifying Another Word
- deeply: Some commentators are deeply suspicious of the way the Deep Impact data is being handled.
- understandably: People are understandably suspicious about the way some organizations treat them, but good Data Protection practice reassures them that they can trust you.
- tad: I'm always a tad suspicious when I receive a demo that actually sounds quite good ' Is this for real?
- mutually: New security issues arise when the user may not be trusted, or the user and the host computer's owner are mutually suspicious.
Modifies a noun
- circumstance: At least five black people have lost their lives in suspicious circumstances in the custody of the police in the last year.
- lesion: Secondary prevention of melanoma relies on early detection and biopsy of suspicious lesions.
- transaction: In the event of any suspicious transactions arising, the Bank is obliged to notify the National Criminal Investigation Service.
- outbreak: The United States is also seeking the elaboration of a mechanism for international investigations of suspicious outbreaks of disease or alleged BW incidents.
- incident: There had been a number of suspicious incidents over recent months.
- caller: Let the police and your neighbors know if you have had a suspicious caller at the door.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Maybe she should have worn gloves in case he became suspicious - had the envelope dusted for prints.
- deem: For example the police have the right to take anyone who they deem suspicious to the police station for interrogation.
- seem: You should be vigilant and not execute any e-mail attachments that seem suspicious.
- remain: The police remained sufficiently suspicious to follow him up for a number of years adding progress reports to the file.
- appear: Advice to post room staff: There are a number of signs that may make a letter etc. appear suspicious.
- look: Two MEN sitting at a table next to the stage look very suspicious.
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
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