suspicious

Definition for suspicious

adjective as in distrustful

Strongest matches

apprehensive, careful, cautious, doubtful, incredulous, jealous, leery, mistrustful, skeptical, wary, watchful

Weak matches

cagey, green-eyed, in doubt, not born yesterday on the lookout, questioning, quizzical, suspect, suspecting, unbelieving, uptight, without belief, without faith, wondering

adjective as in doubtful, fishy

Strongest matches

dubious, questionable, uncertain, unsure, unusual

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

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This may not be the first time the unidentified hooded man left a suspicious bag in the Torrance area.

From Los Angeles Times

A suspicious bag seemingly abandoned on a bench prompted the shutdown of the Torrance courthouse early Wednesday and drew the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad to the scene.

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The Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division began its investigation — dubbed Operation Bear Claw — after an insurance company examined the recording of the Jan. 28 Rolls Royce incident and became suspicious that there was something fishy going on.

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Some of his victims had grown suspicious about who he really was, with Paula concerned enough to use Clare's Law, via which people can request information about a partner's previous offending.

From BBC

Suspicious, the officers unzipped the suitcase’s lining and found a stack of 13 white T-shirts “that were wet and appeared to be caked with a white powdery substance,” according to the affidavit.

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