Definition Suspicious

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suspicious: distrustful, skeptical, apprehensive, doubtful; strange, dubious, questionable
adjective

He looks suspicious. I think he is guilty of something, but I'm not sure what!

I find it suspicious that you don't make eye contact with me. If you were innocent, you would look me in the eye.

to be suspicious (of, that): to suspect (that something has happened); to be dubious of, skeptical about (someone)
verb

I'm suspicious of his intentions. He says he wants to be a police officer to fight crime, but he has connections to the mafia.

We are suspicious that the judge has taken a bribe: his verdict seems very strange.

"I first started getting suspicious in the helicopter."
"A quick-thinking pedestrian, who happened to pass by just as the suspicious youths entered the bank, helped police solve the crime in record time."
"The press is already suspicious of our methods."
"He is notoriously suspicious of everything, and certainly cannot be trusted."
"That sounds suspicious."
"Steve : That sounds suspicious, I think you've received a phishing e-mail."
"- Don't be stupid enough to respond in any way to unsolicited or suspicious mail claiming to be from a bank."

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