Word Finder - suspicious

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Arousing suspicion.

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His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.

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Distrustful or tending to suspect.

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I have a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.

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Expressing suspicion

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She gave me a suspicious look.

I know it looks suspicious, but you've got to learn to trust me.

He nodded absently, giving her a suspicious look.

It was ridiculous to be suspicious of him.

Wasn't her boss suspicious when she went missing?

I never would have believed a woman could be so kind hearted and so suspicious at the same time.

She was growing suspicious of his frequent journeys.

He's just suspicious about the motives of the intruder.

It is easy to be suspicious of the person who speaks in some strange tongue.

We tried not to look suspicious, a difficult task as we were used to working undisturbed.

Or maybe she had a suspicious mind.

They must have been more than just suspicious of you.

He was suspicious of me when we talked in the hospital.

You're stubborn, suspicious of everyone, and you ask so many damn stupid questions.

The situation in Piedmont was far from promising, the exchequer was empty, the army disorganized, the country despondent and suspicious of the king.

Who might get suspicious, and who was he talking to?

The saviour of his country was coldly received and left unrewarded by his suspicious sovereign.

The orthodox subjects of Theodoric were suspicious of their ruler; and many would gladly have joined in a plot to displace him.

As king the loss and failure of friends made him cautious, suspicious and cruel.

It is undoubtedly the case that they are suspicious of strangers and defiant of interference.

Ancient accounts agree in describing Alexander as a typically cruel and suspicious tyrant.

What good would it do to get suspicious, anyway?

The Turks then again grew suspicious of him and imprisoned him a second time.

Were victims ever suspicious of their attackers beforehand?

It is also suspicious that no list of the members of the league is given, contrary to the usual custom.

Leaning forward, she examined a suspicious looking line at the side of her eye.

Gibbons would have been suspicious if you told him to keep quiet about your interest in Corbin.

Until the following March, Washington's work was to bring about some semblance of military organization and discipline, to collect ammunition and military stores, to correspond with Congress and the colonial authorities, to guide military operations in widely separate parts of the country, to create a military system for a people entirely unaccustomed to such a thing and impatient and suspicious under it, and to bend the course of events steadily towards driving the British out of Boston.

Instead of comforting him, he was suspicious of the morning routine.

But his internal government, unlike that of Gelo, was suspicious, greedy and cruel.

C. Fremont, - whose doings in California in the next two years were to be the main assets in a life-long reputation and an unsuccessful presidential campaign, - while engaged in a government surveying expedition, aroused the apprehensions of the Californian authorities by suspicious and very possibly intentionally provocative movements, and there was a show of military force by both parties.

It is true that a Young Wales party has arisen, which seeks to narrow this movement to the exclusion of English ideas and influences; and it is also true that there is a party which is abnormally suspicious of and hostile to this Welsh Renaissance; but in the main it is correct to say that the bulk of the Welsh nation remains content to assert its views and requirements in a reasonable manner.

It marks the dawn of a public spirit as represented by the gentry, who, alarmed at the national peril and justly suspicious of the ruling magnates, unhesitatingly placed their destinies in the hands of Hunyadi, the one honest man who by sheer merit had risen within the last ten years from the humble position of a country squire to a leading position in the state.

Egyptians, however, are as a rule suspicious of all not of their own creed and country.

Not stopping to reflect that in the angry and suspicious state of men's minds he was sure to lose as much in one direction as he would gain in the other, Justinian entered into the idea, and put forth an edict exposing and denouncing the errors contained in the writings of Theodore generally, in the treatise of Theodoret against Cyril of Alexandria, and in a letter of Bishop Ibas (a letter whose authenticity was doubted, but which passed under his name) to the Persian bishop Marls.

Dionysius was regarded by the ancients as a type of the worst kind of despot - cruel, suspicious and vindictive.

Ali was angered by the refusal to surrender Parga and justly suspicious of the ambitions which this refusal implied; he could not feel himself secure with the Ionian Islands and the Dalmatian coast in the hands of a power whose plans in the East were notorious, and he was glad enough to avail himself of Napoleon's reverses in 1812 to help to rid himself of so dangerous a neighbor.

In Russia, too, certain reforms were carried out; but they could not survive the suspicious interference of the autocrat and his officials.

But if Alexander suspected Napoleon, Napoleon was no less suspicious of Alexander; and, partly to test his sincerity, he sent an almost peremptory request for the hand of the grandduchess`'Anne, the tsar's youngest sister.

Karl Sand, the murderer of Kotzebue, was one of his pupils; and a letter of his, found on another student, warning the lad against participation in secret societies, was twisted by the suspicious authorities into evidence of his guilt.

The coming of the Child draws Eastern sages to his cradle and fills the court of Herod with suspicious fears.

Though an improvement on the old constitution, it was unacceptable to the estates, jealous of their old privileges and suspicious of the king's intentions.

The letters vividly describe the approach of the enemy, and, in appealing to Egypt, abound in protestations of loyalty, complaints of the disloyalty of other kings and excuses for the writers' suspicious conduct.

He was not suspicious, but if he withdrew his confidence he was implacable.

Owing to the number of American immigrants who had settled in California, the Mexican authorities there became suspicious and hostile, and ordered Fremont out of the province.

Cetywayo was, however, suspicious of the Natal government, which afforded protection to two of his brothers.

The states did, it is true, meet occasionally for discussion, but their relation, which had no real existence save in cases of immediate common danger, was really that between a paramount leader and unwilling and suspicious allies.

In May 1743 a vessel arrived from Corfu, on board of which had occurred some suspicious deaths.

The ship and cargo were burnt, but soon after cases of a suspicious form of disease were observed in the hospital and in the poorest parts of the town; and in the summer a fearful epidemic of plague developed itself which destroyed 40,000 or 50,000 persons, and then became extinct without spreading to other parts of Sicily.

Some years later, however, Tryphon, an officer of the Syrians, who had grown suspicious of the Maccabees, enticed Jonathan into Ptolemais and there treacherously took him prisoner.

The suspicious nobles were solemnly adjured to trust themselves to hIs keeping, under promise of forgiveness.