Word Finder - suspected

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To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.

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to suspect the presence of disease

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To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

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to suspect the truth of a story

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To believe (someone) to be guilty.

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I suspect him of being the thief.

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To have suspicion.

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To look up to; to respect.

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Believed to be a cause or at fault.

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Bring in the suspected vandal.

Maybe Sarah suspected that Giddon felt sorry for her.

She must have suspected as well.

He was pretending to read a book, though she suspected he'd been emplaced as her bodyguard.

I suspected him right from the start.

We were finding make work at the office increasingly boring but I suspected our absence would produce unwanted curiosity.

He was the person suspected of murdering Howie's sister, Annie, fifteen years ago.

You can cut apart any suspected vamp-pigs you find.

She suspected he was one step ahead, but she wasn't expecting him to reveal his plan.

But this time, he suspected Dusty would live up to his legend.

Even so, she had never suspected the truth – the drugs.

He suspected it was the feeling that he was about to explode and not the cool morning.

Mums probably suspected that Alex didn't believe the baby was his.

She lay on the sofa with her face to the wall, fingering the buttons of the leather cushion and seeing nothing but that cushion, and her confused thoughts were centered on one subject--the irrevocability of death and her own spiritual baseness, which she had not suspected, but which had shown itself during her father's illness.

Some might think Dulce didn't know what she was missing, but Carmen suspected she did.

Mom used to say that people suspected in others what they had experienced or what they would do in the other person's shoes.

You could tell Howie I came to you for advice; that I just suspected and didn't know what to do, not that I've known all along!

His gaze was intent, and she suspected he'd just now reached that decision.

She tried not to let it affect her but suspected by his look of satisfaction that he saw how quickly her face changed colors.

While the dead man hadn't known who the handler was, he'd suspected it was another death-dealer.

He'd long since suspected one of them was working with Sasha, but it wasn't him.

She knew what she thought and suspected he did, too.

If shit was about to hit the fan like he suspected, he'd rather not spend his last days alone.

He did not think of doubting Freemasonry itself, but suspected that Russian Masonry had taken a wrong path and deviated from its original principles.

But of all these various suspected characters, Pierre was considered to be the most suspicious of all.

Being close enough so that she could attend college while living at home had been their rationalization, but she suspected they were also trying to stimulate her social life.

Gabriel suspected the Dark One wasn't going to let his little human out of Hell, especially not to see her former mate.

Gabriel suspected he did, too.

She suspected he came from money, and a glance around confirmed it.

Deidre suspected the result of provoking either man was death to someone.

Gabe suspected he knew why.

As the third day came to a close, she suspected they – more specifically, Gabriel ­– had really let her go.

Deidre suspected they were baiting her.

Darkyn saw it somehow, and Deidre suspected Gabriel's here-gone approach to her was his way of hiding how much he did care.

Kris's features clouded, and Gabriel suspected it was because Kris had been with his current lover, Jade, for hundreds of years.

He suspected the conversation would go as well as his talk with Jade.

She felt his gaze and suspected she'd pissed him off again with her directness.

She suspected fireworks and saw something streak into the sky.

She felt bad for Rhyn, though she suspected the emotion was wasted on someone who didn't have a drop of self-pity.

His confidence was too strong to shake, and she suspected he knew just how damned good in bed he was and how unlikely any woman who'd had him would choose another man over him.

Despite his monstrous habits of shredding anything in his path, he had a sense of honor more deeply ingrained than she'd ever suspected.

Giovanni pitied Katie, and yet, Rhyn suspected he knew more about the woman than either the man before him or Hannah.

She suspected Kris might override his promise to let her go in five weeks, if Ully couldn.t figure it out.

He.d seen the way Kris looked at her and had long suspected the Council leader had two lovers, not one.

He suspected Ne'Rin didn't care for nishani.

He'd never outright told her it grossed him out, but she suspected it did.

This failing, he ejected suspected prelates, and occasionally persecuted them, though with far less severity than that applied to the heretics of a deeper dye, such as Montanists or even Arians.

An ischaemic lactate test may be helpful in suspected metabolic myopathy.

But the fact remains that Miss Canby's story was read to me once, and that long after I had forgotten it, it came back to me so naturally that I never suspected that it was the child of another mind.

Who would have suspected so large and cold and thick-skinned a thing to be so sensitive?

He.d suspected Sasha was there for more than one reason and didn.t doubt his brother had a plan.