Definition of Suspicious

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Suspicious

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.

Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.

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Suspicious Quotations

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Keith Richards

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
John Le Carre

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
Anthony Hopkins

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.
Robert Duvall

Suspicious Translations

suspicious in Dutch is achterdochtig, wantrouwig, argwanend
suspicious in Italian is sospetto, diffidgnte
suspicious in Spanish is suspicaz, sospechoso

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