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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The bomb squad was called out after reports of a suspicious package at Scotland's busiest bus station at about 13:10.

From BBC

Typical psychotic-like experiences include perceptual distortions and hallucinations, suspicious paranoid thinking, delusions and bizarre, unusual thoughts.

From Science Daily

At the gym, we noticed a strange atmosphere - with a suspicious number of his own cameras pointed at us.

From BBC

The records indicate that at least 160 staffing firms, most of them identified during the Trump administration, employed people with suspicious documents or no evidence of authorization.

From New York Times

He was put on trial there for culpable homicide after the suspicious death of a 16-year-old boy in Zimbabwe but the case collapsed.

From BBC

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