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The anti-vaccine movement is based on suspicion of authority, beginning with medical authority.

Some of the more general objections to the project may have more to do with suspicions of government and for-profit businesses than with mosquito biology.

When two more people were beaten the next day, apparently on the same suspicion, the government shut off the state’s internet to stop the rumors from spreading.

Indeed, despite the algorithm’s somewhat weird writing pattern and occasional errors, only three or four of the dozens of people who commented on his top post on Hacker News raised suspicions that it might have been generated by an algorithm.

Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, said the July jobs report only confirmed his suspicion that the economic recovery was starting to plateau.

Father Joel Román Salazar died in a car crash in 2013; his death was ruled an accident, but the suspicion of foul play persists.

Those who served abroad were treated with suspicion that they had been infected by European diplomacy.

In Romneyland, the super PAC is being met with real suspicion and skepticism.

Sena might have felt insulated from suspicion in part because of his friendly relationship with local police.

Suspicion has focused on the government of Qatar, which has strong ties to Nusra, as the source of the money.

Any one may possess the portrait of a tragedian without exciting suspicion or comment.

He learned the series by heart without any suspicion that he was committing it to memory.

Hilda impetuously turned her head; their glances met for an instant, in suspicion, challenge, animosity.

She watched him, and suddenly a suspicion darted through her mind—a suspicion that he suspected them.

Doubt, suspicion, anger clouded vision; pain routed the impersonal conception.

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On this page you'll find 131 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to suspicion, such as: conjecture, cynicism, distrust, impression, jealousy, and misgiving.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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