Meanings
comparative more suspiciously · superlative most suspiciously
- mannerIn a way that arouses suspicion.
She was behaving very suspiciously.
- evaluativeCausing suspicion.
Suspiciously, he had taken out an insurance policy on his wife just months earlier.
- degreeTo a degree that makes one suspect something.
Her paper was suspiciously well-written.
2 more examples
It looked suspiciously like a molding-compound repair of a dent.
Yes. Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates. Perhaps because, as noted by many TikTok users – and over the weekend both Today and the New York Times – many of these girl dinners are “suspiciously low cal”.
2023 July 10, Alyx Gorman, Yvonne C Lam, “Explain it to me quickly: What is a TikTok ‘girl dinner’ and should I eat one tonight?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023, retrieved 10 Jul 2023
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Catalan sospitosament, sospitosament
- sospitosamentIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- sospitosamentin a manner suggesting guilt
Chinese Mandarin 可疑地, 怀疑地
- 可疑地to a degree that makes one suspect something
- 怀疑地In a manner suggesting suspicion
- 猜疑地In a manner suggesting suspicion
- 嫌疑地in a manner suggesting guilt
Dutch verdacht, wantrouwig
- verdachtto a degree that makes one suspect something
- wantrouwigIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- verdachtin a manner suggesting guilt
Finnish epäilyttävästi, epäilevästi
- epäilyttävästito a degree that makes one suspect something
- epäilevästiIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- epäuskoisestiIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- epäilyttävästiin a manner suggesting guilt
French étonnamment, suspicieusement
- étonnammentto a degree that makes one suspect something
- suspicieusementIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- suspectementIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- coupablementin a manner suggesting guilt
German argwöhnisch, verdächtig
- argwöhnischto a degree that makes one suspect something
- verdächtigIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- verdächtigin a manner suggesting guilt
Hungarian gyanúsan
- gyanúsanIn a manner suggesting suspicion
Norwegian Bokmål mistenkelig, mistenkelig
- mistenkeligto a degree that makes one suspect something
- mistenkeligIn a manner suggesting suspicion
Portuguese suspeitamente, suspeitosamente
- suspeitamenteto a degree that makes one suspect something
- suspeitosamenteIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- culposamentein a manner suggesting guilt
Russian подозри́тельно, подозри́тельно
- подозри́тельно (podozrítelʹno)to a degree that makes one suspect something
- подозри́тельно (podozrítelʹno)In a manner suggesting suspicion
- с подозре́нием (s podozrénijem)In a manner suggesting suspicion
- подозри́тельно (podozrítelʹno)in a manner suggesting guilt
Spanish sospechosamente, sospechosamente
- sospechosamenteto a degree that makes one suspect something
- sospechosamenteIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- culpablementein a manner suggesting guilt
Vietnamese một cách đáng ngờ, đầy nghi ngờ
- một cách đáng ngờto a degree that makes one suspect something
- đầy nghi ngờIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- đa nghiIn a manner suggesting suspicion
- đáng ngờin a manner suggesting guilt
- khả nghiin a manner suggesting guilt
Cite this entry
suspiciously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspiciously
“suspiciously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspiciously. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suspiciously,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspiciously.
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