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overly suspicious
adjective as in paranoid
Weak match
Example Sentences
He said he was held at gunpoint six times while growing up — three times by overly suspicious police officers — and once had a knife held to his throat.
I’m sometimes overly suspicious, especially when we’re dealing with hetero-to-heteroflexible cis men.
To his critics, he is overly suspicious of American power and overly sympathetic to foreign actors including Iran and the Palestinians who have deep disputes with the West.
Encinia was trained to be overly suspicious and was “terrified” of Bland, Gladwell says — apparently taking the officer’s statements at face value.
“But being overly suspicious is a hindrance,” adding: “Peace is more fragile than we had hoped after the end of the Cold War.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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