suspicious

Definition of Suspicious in English :

Adjective

1. leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary

openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

2. fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious

not as expected

Example Sentences:
'there was something fishy about the accident'
'up to some funny business'
'some definitely queer goings-on'
'a shady deal'
'her motives were suspect'
'suspicious behavior'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Suspicious

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adjective

1.

exciting or liable to excite suspicion; questionable

2.

disposed to suspect something wrong

3.

indicative or expressive of suspicion

Suspicious

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adjective

1.

arousing or likely to arouse suspicion in others

2.

showing or expressing suspicion

3.

a.

feeling suspicion

b.

tending habitually to suspect, esp. to suspect evil

Suspicious

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adj.

1. Arousing or apt to arouse suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.

2. Tending to suspect; distrustful: a suspicious nature.

3. Expressing suspicion: a suspicious look.

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