Definition of Suspicious

Suspicious

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.

Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.

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Suspicious Quotations

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Keith Richards

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
Slavoj Zizek

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
Anthony Hopkins

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.
Robert Duvall

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Robert Morgan

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
Andrew Cohen

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
Eugene Ionesco

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. Forbes

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Alfred North Whitehead

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
Hugo Black

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
John Le Carre

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Benjamin Spock

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Thomas Mann

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.
Eric Liu

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Manuel Puig

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
Laurie Anderson

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
Susan Estrich

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.
Paul A. Volcker

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.
John Hurt

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Suspicious Translations

suspicious in Dutch is achterdochtig, wantrouwig, argwanend
suspicious in Italian is sospetto, diffidgnte
suspicious in Spanish is suspicaz, sospechoso

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