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Definition of suspicious
1 : tending to arouse suspicion : questionable suspicious characters
2 : disposed to suspect : distrustful suspicious of strangers
3 : expressing or indicative of suspicion a suspicious glance
suspiciously
adverbsuspiciousness
nounFrom the M-W Editors
Examples of suspicious in a Sentence
We were instructed to report any suspicious activity in the neighborhood.
The suspicious vehicle was reported to police.
Suspicious characters were seen hanging around the bank.
He found a suspicious lump on his back and was afraid it might be cancer.
Officials are suspicious about her death.
His manner made me suspicious.
Recent Examples of suspicious from the Web
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Locals still report lurking fighters and suspicious packages to the plethora of security forces in the city.
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His critics remain suspicious, seeing in this switch a back-door route to dictatorship.
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If the development isn’t generally suspicious, the specific timing and extent of it certainly is.
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This fall, when Dr. Smith met the boy’s parents at school and told them that medication could help their distracted, failing son, the father was standoffish and suspicious.
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Police said Groton Police along with the Regional Community Enhancement Task Force, which was formed to combat the heroin epidemic in southeastern Connecticut, initiated an investigation after observing the suspicious activity.
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According to the affidavit, the U.S. Postal Inspector originally identified roughly 30 suspicious parcels that had been sent from Los Angeles to Louisville since 2016.
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Farrah is correctly suspicious of David but Debra isn’t having any of it.
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About 40 minutes later, police got a call about a suspicious person on Sequoia Avenue, two blocks north of the lagoon.
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First Known Use of suspicious
14th century
SUSPICIOUS Defined for English Language Learners
suspicious
playDefinition of suspicious for English Language Learners
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: causing a feeling that something is wrong or that someone is behaving wrongly : causing suspicion
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: having or showing a feeling that something is wrong or that someone is behaving wrongly : feeling or showing suspicion
SUSPICIOUS Defined for Kids
suspicious
playDefinition of suspicious for Students
1 : likely to arouse suspicion suspicious actions
2 : likely to distrust or be distrustful Trolls are … mighty suspicious about anything new to them. — J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
3 : showing distrust a suspicious glance
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