mere suspicion

collocation in English

meaningsofmereandsuspicion

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mere
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mɪər/us
/mɪr/
used to emphasize that something is not large ...
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suspicion
noun
uk
/səˈspɪʃ.ən/us
/səˈspɪʃ.ən/
a belief or idea that something may ...
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(Definition ofmereandsuspicionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Many divorces have been given where there was more than ameresuspicionof collusion.
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His office may be turned upside down for the sake of something which may bemeresuspicion.
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It is my belief that it has every right to enter and search premises on themeresuspicionthat this may have happened.
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It is quite possible that the commission may attract a good number of allegations which may give rise tomeresuspicion.
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I get that feeling from what he has said, but it ismeresuspicion.
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I may say that this belief is not founded onmeresuspicion.
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He said that the present law might allow customs officials to search people on the basis ofmeresuspicion.
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It is also not intended to designate restricted areas on ameresuspicionthat an historic wreck may lie somewhere within it.
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There can be no confidence when thousands and thousands of people are arrested onmeresuspicionand few are proceeded against in the courts.
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Ameresuspicion—a hunch or instinct, or a glimpse of long hair—which cannot be articulated or offered for objective scrutiny does not suffice.
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That code refers to the powers of stop and search and deals in particular with reasonable suspicion, contrasting that withmeresuspicion.
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On themeresuspicionthat it may be true, the numbers of unemployed in the engineering and allied trades are already increasing seriously.
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I do not think we can act on ameresuspicion.
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They have been known to withdraw benefit on what appears to bemeresuspicion.
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There, again, the whole thing is based onmeresuspicion.
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Certainlymeresuspicionof someone ought not to provide sufficient reason to search him.
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But a person cannot be brought to court for trial onmeresuspicion.
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There should be a better reason for detaining an aircraft thanmeresuspicion.
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Another problem is that people's documents can be taken away and read on ameresuspicion.
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I venture to think themeresuspicionof that sort of thing at a crisis like this is to be avoided at almost any cost.
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