Synonym: doubtful, questionable, wary. Similar words: suspicion, officious, vivacious, loquacious, pugnacious, subconsciously, consciousness, suspect. Meaning: [sə'spɪʃəs] adj. 1. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide 2. not as expected.
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(211) She was extremely suspicious, but gracious, delighted to find so many bright and conversant women interested in meeting her.
(212) Last October he was injured in a suspicious car crash in which four of his associates died.
(213) He found two types, the highly suspicious and the willing business partners.
(214) The army's bomb disposal experts say the lesson is simple ... report anything suspicious, especially in the run up to Christmas.
(215) After this bad day, anyone not tucked up in bed is making them suspicious.
(216) She had always been suspicious of Taczek, and here was yet more evidence implicating him with people she no longer trusted.
(217) Investigators responded to the two locations after they received calls of suspicious packages in the mail.
(218) We had a couple of suspicious characters but their alibis are watertight.
(219) Police appealed to anyone who saw anything suspicious at the scene at around 12.45am to contact Middlesbrough CID on 248184.
(220) He kept walking; there was little point in making them suspicious by turning round and retracing his steps.
(221) Police and the trading standards were led to the house by a suspicious neighbour.
(222) One learns to grow suspicious of cosy, predictable and sentimental prayer meetings.
(223) Passengers should try to stay alert at all times, and report any suspicious packages to the police immediately.
(224) He was suspicious of her motives in inviting him into the house - he usually got no further than the front doorstep.
(225) Yet they have helped persuade a suspicious population to accept Mr Salinas's much-needed reforms.
(226) He was a suspicious cat, wary of people getting pensive.
(227) So he was suspicious of her welcome, her sudden ardour, her newfound tongue to kiss with and to speak.
(228) Helicopters will fly overhead, and police robots will be available to handle suspicious packages that might contain explosives.
(229) The fact that Wycliffe often deferred to her judgement made Kersey suspicious of her intrusion into their cosy male councils.
(230) Ann was less demanding and feeling less suspicious of Charles.
(231) The one on the rock looked over slowly, highly suspicious.
(232) And both contributors and the general public remain suspicious and divided about public financing of presidential and congressional elections.
(233) Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
(234) Tammuz was immediately suspicious because he knew the man never broke his routines unless something out of the ordinary was afoot.
(235) Kitchen encouraged residents who hear shots in the area or see suspicious people to contact authorities.
(236) The press, in its callous, cynical way,[Sentencedict] was suspicious of the pro-gram at first and called it pure symbolism.
(237) What had become of the suspicious anti-warrior of the sixties, casting reproachful glances at the Temple University computer center?
(238) David Widgery was deeply immersed in student politics, and deeply suspicious of It.
(239) She thinks Alexander is a highly suspicious character, although that wouldn't require any great acumen on anyone's part.
(240) Obviously he behaved in a highly suspicious manner today, but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things.
More similar words: suspicion, officious, vivacious, loquacious, pugnacious, subconsciously, consciousness, suspect, suspend, various, obvious, envious, anxious, dubious, curious, previous, oblivious, bumptious, ambitious, obviously, previously, mysterious, laboriously, versus, spit, spin, as usual, sustain, spill, spine.