Definition of Suspicion

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Suspicion

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.

Slight degree; suggestion; hint.

To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.

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Suspicion Quotations

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mohandas Gandhi

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Thomas Paine

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Julius Caesar

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Marcel Proust

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

Suspicion Translations

suspicion in Afrikaans is suspisie
suspicion in Dutch is argwaan, achterdocht, wantrouwen
suspicion in German is Argwohn {m}, Verdacht {m}, Verdacht
suspicion in Portuguese is suspeita
suspicion in Spanish is sospecha
suspicion in Swedish is misstanke, misstanke, misstro

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