Suspicion
The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.
Slight degree; suggestion; hint.
To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.
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Suspicion Quotations
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Barack Obama
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Julius Caesar
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Thomas Paine
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Franz Kafka
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Marcel Proust
Suspicion Translations
suspicion in Afrikaans is suspisie
suspicion in Dutch is argwaan, achterdocht, wantrouwen
suspicion in German is Argwohn {m}, Verdacht {m}, Verdacht
suspicion in Portuguese is suspeita
suspicion in Spanish is sospecha
suspicion in Swedish is misstanke, misstanke, misstro
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