suspicious

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/səˈspɪʃ.əs/

Definition of suspicious

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Arousing suspicion.
    “His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.”
    “If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.”
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adj

  1. Arousing suspicion.
    “His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.”
    “If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.”
  2. Distrustful or tending to suspect.
    “We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.”
    “Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue, Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie, Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge, I ſtand agaſt: […]”
  3. Expressing suspicion
    “She gave me a suspicious look.”

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Etymology

From Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus.

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