suspicious

comparative more suspicious · superlative most suspicious

1. Arousing suspicion.

   His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.

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   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.

   1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman

   Synonyms: questionable, queer

2. Distrustful or tending to suspect.

   We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.

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   Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue, Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie, Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge, I ſtand agaſt: […]

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii

   Synonyms: doubtful, leery · Antonyms: unsuspecting

3. Expressing suspicion

   She gave me a suspicious look.