suspiciously
advEtymology From suspicious + -ly.
1
Manner In a way suggesting suspicion.
- The police officer looked at her suspiciously.
2
Manner In a way that arouses suspicion.
- She was behaving very suspiciously.
3
Causing suspicion.
- Suspiciously, he had taken out an insurance policy on his wife just months earlier.
4
To a degree that makes one suspect something.
- It looked suspiciously like a molding-compound repair of a dent.
- Her paper was suspiciously well-written.
1 more example
- Yes. Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates. Perhaps because, as noted by many TikTok users – and over the weekend both Today and the New York Times – many of these girl dinners are “suspiciously low cal”.2023 July 10, Alyx Gorman, Yvonne C Lam, “Explain it to me quickly: What is a TikTok ‘girl dinner’ and should I eat one tonight?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023, retrieved 10 Jul 2023: