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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
In general, Frawley is suspicious of ideas that seem good but may be more complex in reality.
Finma doesn’t have the power to fine a bank, but it can demand repayment of profits deemed illicit or otherwise suspicious.
Indeed, I suspect there are some people who would be rightfully suspicious of changing their thinking to being habitually scientific.
People are suspicious and don’t trust advertising, thinking that ads may lead to fraud or that advertisers act only to their own benefit and that the consumers will get no value out these promotional banners sitting around the content they visit.
This suggests the USPIS may have learned of the fraud as a result of suspicious bank transfers.
They apparently took that as a sign of suspicious activity, even though that can be a hallmark of people on the autism spectrum.
Onscreen, Teller is a bit like a young Vince Vaughn—gregarious, charming, and a tad suspicious.
Black people, especially young black men, are regarded as suspicious, threatening and potentially dangerous.
With this track record, how could the American people be anything other than suspicious of war?
Over dinner, an elderly waitress at a nearby restaurant thought the timing of the attack was suspicious.
It is a vile world because it is an under-educated world, unreasonable, suspicious, base and ferocious.
Why did he not exercise more precaution when investigating anything so suspicious as a concealed fire?
"I ask no promise from you," continued the excited and suspicious man, writhing under a sense of his helplessness.
And here he might have stopped with safety; but his roused, suspicious, sensitive nature, would not suffer him.
James Otis recovered from a temporary fit of insanity only to grow strangely suspicious of Samuel Adams.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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