suspicious

suspicious
adj.
1 not trusting sb
VERBS
▪ be, feel, look, seem, sound
▪ become, get, grow
▪

I think they're starting to get suspicious.

▪ remain
▪ make sb
▪

Something about her smile made him suspicious.

ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ deeply, highly, particularly
▪

She remained deeply suspicious of computers.

▪ increasingly
▪ a little, slightly, etc.
▪

His voice grew slightly suspicious.

▪ immediately, instantly
▪ naturally
▪

I have a naturally suspicious mind.

▪ rightly
▪

Voters are rightly suspicious of attempts to save money in the area of education.

▪ overly
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪

They were somewhat suspicious about her past.

▪ of
▪

She was highly suspicious of his motives.

PHRASES
▪ be right to be suspicious (of sb/sth), have reason to be suspicious (of sb/sth)
▪ have a right to be suspicious (of sb/sth)
▪

Parents have every right to be suspicious of what the experts tell them.

2 making you feel that sth is wrong
VERBS
▪ be, look, seem, sound
▪

We have to carry on as usual or it would look suspicious.

▪ consider sth, find sth, regard sth as, treat sth as
▪

I find it very suspicious that he left halfway through the morning.

▪

Police are treating both fires as suspicious.

ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ highly
▪

He was seen acting in a highly suspicious manner.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.
PHRASES
▪ hear anything suspicious, see anything suspicious
▪

Inform the police immediately if you see anything suspicious.

Suspicious is used with these nouns: ↑activity, ↑behaviour, ↑character, ↑circumstance, ↑death, ↑eye, ↑glance, ↑look, ↑manner, ↑package, ↑transaction

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