What does "suspicious" mean?
Suspicious: Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear. We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance. Swift.
Additional senses
- 2.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. See Jealous. -- Sus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Sus*pi"cious*ness, n.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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