suspicious
adj/səˈspɪʃ.əs/
Etymology From Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus.
1
Arousing suspicion.
- His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
- If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman:
2
Distrustful or tending to suspect.
- We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
- Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue, Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie, Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge, I ſtand agaſt: […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
3
Expressing suspicion
- She gave me a suspicious look.
- Derived terms
- non-suspicious, nonsuspicious, oversuspicious, supersuspicious, sus, suspiciously, suspiciousness, unsuspicious