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suspicious

[səˈspɪʃəs]

Definition:
1. Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
2. Not as expected.

Use 'suspicious' in a sentence:

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