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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]:
suspiciously
adverb: with suspicion; "she regarded the food suspiciously"
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