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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suspicious \Sus*pi"cious\, adjective [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See {Suspicion}.]
1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. --South.
Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other. --Pope.
2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance. --Swift.
3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could. --Shak.
Syn: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful; questionable. See {Jealous}. -- {Sus*pi"cious*ly}, adverb -- {Sus*pi"cious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
suspicious
adjective
1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: {leery}, {mistrustful}, {untrusting}, {wary}]
2: not as expected; "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" [syn: {fishy}, {funny}, {queer}, {shady}, {suspect}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "suspicious": Pyrrhonic, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, agnostic, amoral, apprehensive, arguable, at issue, beyond belief, borderline, cagey, careful, cautious, chary, confutable, conjectural, conscienceless, contestable, controversial, controvertible, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, debatable, deniable, devious, disbelieving, dishonest, dishonorable, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, disputable, distrustful, distrustfully, doubtable, doubtful, doubtfully, doubting, dubious, dubitable, envious, evasive, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, from Missouri, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, guarded, hard of belief, hard to believe, horn-mad, iffy, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, impervious to persuasion, implausible, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inconceivable, inconvincible, incredible, incredulous, indirect, insidious, invidious, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, leery, mistakable, mistrustful, mistrusting, moot, not deserving belief, not kosher, open, open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief, preposterous, problematic, queer, questionable, questioning, refutable, ridiculous, rotten, sceptical, scrupulous, shady, shaky, shameless, shifty, shy, shy of belief, sinister, skeptical, skeptically, slippery, speculative, staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspected, suspecting, suspiciously, tall, thick, thin, tricky, unbelievable, unbelieving, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unconvincible, unconvincing, uncredulous, under suspicion, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, uneasy, unethical, ungodly, unimaginable, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, unsure, unthinkable, untrusting, unwilling to accept, unworthy of belief, wary, watchful, without remorse, without shame, yellow, yellow-eyed
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