suspicious
[səˈspɪʃəs]
Definition:
1. Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
2. Not as expected.
'suspicious' example sentence:
- It can also be used to report suspicious activity.
- It gives his films an uncanny feature: the familiar made unfamiliar, the normal made suspicious.
- It was all very suspicious.
- Now detectives are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious last night.
- Why should you be so suspicious?
- "Father first," said Michael, who was of a suspicious nature.
- If the arms are outstretched in the yearning position, the person tends to be more suspicious.
- We have become suspicious of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.
- Look here--I'll get suspicious of you, first thing you know.
- A woman kept prisoner in a basement was rescued after suspicious neighbours tipped off police.
- I was suspicious of his motives.
- You could get in touch with them immediately if there's anything suspicious happening next door.
- He did not want Pollard to become suspicious that he was now onto him.
- The report mentions the death of 18 people in suspicious circumstances.
- Two officers on patrol became suspicious of two men in a car.
- Nottingham police last night found what they described as a suspicious package.
- I can just see the nasty suspicious looks I'd be getting from you if we started whispering together.
- They became suspicious of his behaviour and contacted the police.
- Detectives are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious.
- Police are not treating the fire as suspicious.
- He warned the public to be vigilant and report anything suspicious.
- I'm suspicious of his motives.
- "All-gone," cried the mouse, "that is the most suspicious name of all!"
- I wasn't going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife.
- You have a very suspicious mind.
- 'Did he think there was anything suspicious going on?' — 'Yes, he did.'
- To him, almost all of them looked suspicious.
- The police inferred, though they didn't exactly say it, that they found her behaviour rather suspicious.
- He has his father's suspicious nature.
- She died in suspicious circumstances.
- Suspicious fans exposed the racket and police arrested a man in Nottingham.
- Police have asked residents to keep an eye out for anything suspicious.
- If random numbers are messed up, all security based on it is suspicious.
- An eagle-eyed tourist found the suspicious package.
- The fire is of suspicious origin.
- The police inferred that they found her behaviour rather suspicious.
- Many were suspicious of reform.
- Troops shot anyone suspicious on sight.
- "Did he think there was anything suspicious going on?"—"Yes, he did."
- Didn't you notice anything suspicious in his behaviour?
- There were one or two suspicious looks from nearby.
- Police are warning the public to be on the alert for suspicious packages.
- I have good reason to be suspicious.
- He laments that people in Villa El Salvador are suspicious of the police.
- Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the boy's death.
- In the normal course of things we would not treat her disappearance as suspicious.
- Andrew, you have a very suspicious mind.