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.