suspectless

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/ˈsʌspɛktləs/

adjective

With no criminal suspects.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivesuspectless (comparative more suspectless, superlative most suspectless)

comparative more suspectless · superlative most suspectless

  1. With no criminal suspects.

    After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked.

    2001, Norah Rudin, Keith Inman, An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, Second Edition, page 161
  2. obsoleteNot suspecting; having no suspicion.

    the innocent princes were , suspectless of danger

    1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC
  3. obsoleteNot suspected; not mistrusted.

    Suspectless have I travell'd all the town thro', / And in this merchant's shape won much acquaintance

    c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Origin

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Chicago

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