DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan

 Sus·pi·cious a.
 1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
    Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects.   --South.
    Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other.   --Pope.
 2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
    We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance.   --Swift.
 3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
    I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful; questionable. See Jealous.
 -- Sus*pi*cious*ly, adv. -- Sus*pi*cious*ness, n.
 ◄ ►

 suspiciousness
      n : being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed
          his marriage" [syn: suspicion]