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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 police are suspicious and he is taken to the detention vehicle while his identity is checked.
The man’s death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be passed to the coroner, police said.
But Mr Garofalo later became suspicious after a whistleblower claimed that Crisp continued to sell perfume in Moscow.
Your best policy, unfortunately, is to be suspicious of everything.
They told her there was suspicious activity on her account, but not to worry, they were going to stop the fraud and protect her money.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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