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suspicious
adjective as in distrustful
Strongest matches
apprehensive, careful, cautious, doubtful, incredulous, jealous, leery, mistrustful, skeptical, wary, watchful
adjective as in doubtful, fishy
Strongest matches
Weak matches
borderline, debatable, different, disputable, doubtable, equivocal, farfetched, funny, irregular, not kosher, open, open to doubt, open to question, out of line, overt, peculiar, phony, problematic, reaching, rings untrue, shady, shaky, suspect, too much, uncommon, won't wash
Example Sentences
The Israeli military said soldiers had fired at a "suspicious vehicle" that had crossed the so-called yellow line demarcating the area still occupied by Israeli forces in Gaza.
"The troops fired warning shots toward the suspicious vehicle, but the vehicle continued to approach the troops in a way that caused an imminent threat to them," the military said in a statement.
In a third incident Friday, the Israeli military said it fired at what it called a suspicious vehicle after it crossed the yellow line and ignored warning shots.
Three years after a forensic review was launched into the suspicious death of two siblings in 1976, a family member says he's disappointed that he hasn't been kept up to speed with any progress.
Following World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was highly suspicious of Russian troops returning from the eastern front.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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