单词 | suspicious |
释义 | suspicious (once / 293 pages) adj Suspicious behavior inspires distrust. Prancing around your backyard in a trench coat and fake mustache during daylight might elicit weird looks from your neighbors; do it at night, though, so that your silhouette glides past their windows, and what appeared innocent enough hours before will quickly transition to suspicious. Use this adjective to describe a behavior or event that arouses doubt or mistrust. How to avoid appearing suspicious? Well, for one, stop pausing mid-conversation to take covert notes in that little journal of yours. And two, don’t wear sunglasses indoors, and don’t try to walk without making a sound. That will make people cagey, which is a synonym for suspicious. Other synonyms include apprehensive, doubtful, wary, and watchful. WORD FAMILYsuspicious: oversuspicious, suspiciousest, suspiciously, suspiciousness, unsuspicious+/suspect: suspected, suspectedly, suspecting, suspectingly, suspects, suspicion/suspected: unsuspected/suspecting: unsuspecting/suspicion: suspicions, suspicious/unsuspected: unsuspectedly/unsuspecting: unsuspectingly/unsuspicious: unsuspiciously USAGE EXAMPLESThe document was intended to help companies mitigate Russian hacking and report any suspicious activity to the government. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Police did not say whether Ms Tierney's death was being treated as suspicious. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) For cash deals above 100,000 francs, a Swiss retailer must now confirm customers’ identities and report suspicious transactions. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj openly distrustful and unwilling to confide Syn leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary distrustful having or showing distrust 2adj not as expected suspicious behavior Syn fishy, funny, shady, suspect questionable subject to question |
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