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单词 suspicious
释义
suspicious
adjective
uk
/səˈspɪʃ.əs/us
/səˈspɪʃ.əs/

suspiciousadjective(SEEM GUILTY)

B2
making youfeelthat somethingillegalishappeningor that something iswrong:
可疑的，引起怀疑的
Herbehaviourwas very suspicious.她的举止非常可疑。
Thefireat thebankis beingtreatedas suspicious.银行起火被认为非常可疑。
It's a little suspiciousthatno oneknowswhere he was at thetimeof themurder.有点儿可疑的是，没有人知道谋杀案发当时他在哪里。
There were some suspiciouscharactershangingaroundoutside.有些可疑的人在外面晃荡。
There's a suspicious-lookingvanparkedat the end of thestreet.路的尽头停着一辆看起来很可疑的送货车。
His newbookbearsa suspiciousresemblanceto abookwritten by someoneelse.(= Hisbookis sosimilarto the otherbookthat itseemsas if he hascopiedit.)他的新书与别人写的另外一本书内容雷同，令人生疑。
More examples
  • Shediedin suspiciouscircumstances.
  • Thepublicwerewarnedto be on thealertfor suspiciouspackages.
  • There was somethingfurtiveabout hisbehaviourand Iimmediatelyfeltsuspicious.
  • Hisreticenceabout his past made them very suspicious.
  • Helooksvery suspicioushangingaround by thebins- I'msurehe's up to something.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
  • aberrant
  • abnormal
  • abnormally
  • add
  • Alice-in-Wonderland
  • freakishness
  • funnily
  • funnily enoughidiom
  • ghostliness
  • ghoul
  • perverse
  • perversely
  • perversity
  • perverted
  • pervy
  • unorthodox
  • wack
  • wackadoodle
  • wackiness
  • wacky
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suspiciousadjective(DOUBT)

B2
feelingdoubtor notrustin someone or something:
怀疑的，猜疑的；不信任的
Hiscolleaguesbecamesuspicious(=thoughtthat there was somethingwrong)when he did notappearatwork, since he was alwayspunctual.他一向按时来上班，所以当他没有来上班时，他的同事们起了疑心。
They aredeeply/highly(= very)suspiciousofone another/ofeach other'smotives.他们对彼此的动机都很怀疑。
Mymotherhas a very suspiciousnature(= does nottrustpeople).我妈妈天生喜欢猜疑。
More examples
  • Olderpeopletendto bequiteconservativeand abitsuspicious of anysupposedadvances.
  • Sheallowedthat she might have been too suspicious.
  • OfcourseI'mtellingthetruth- you've got such a suspiciousmind!
  • I wasbecomingincreasinglysuspicious of hismotives.
  • Webecamesuspicious when theletterdid notarrive.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Suspecting & questioning
  • ask
  • ask questions ofsomeone/somethingidiom
  • call into questionidiom
  • challenge
  • cynical
  • cynically
  • cynicism
  • doubt
  • doubter
  • doubting Thomas
  • fisking
  • misgiving
  • niggle
  • oppugn
  • reserve
  • sceptical
  • self-doubt
  • skeptic
  • smell a ratidiom
  • suspicion
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(Definition ofsuspiciousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

suspicious| American Dictionary

suspicious
adjective
us
/səˈspɪʃ·əs/

suspiciousadjective(FEELING DOUBT)

feelingdoubtor alackoftrust:
Many of theworkerswere suspicious of thelaboragreement.

suspiciousadjective(FEELING SOMEONE IS GUILTY)

making youfeelthat somethingillegalishappeningor that something iswrong:
Last night’sfireat thebankis beingtreatedas suspicious.
Neighbors wereaskedif they hadnoticedanything suspicious.
(Definition ofsuspiciousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsuspicious

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As the brewing and live music industries gradually came together, bands were alwayssuspiciousabout the degree of control their patrons could obtain.
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One story from that period captures howsuspiciousthe profession was of these newfangled ideas.
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Consequently, many participants becamesuspiciousof the role the director played in the group.
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Again, if the distribution of the non-masslike enhancement issuspicious, for example, focal nodular clumped, ductal or linear, biopsy would be prudent.
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Asuspiciouscount in the state census of 1875 should be anomalous compared to the federal census counts of both 1870 and 1880.
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Partisan politics occasionally restricted movement by making a person's presence in certain public housessuspicious.
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Poverty and transience were just the first of the family'ssuspicioustraits.
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In this environment, individuals becamesuspiciousand extremely cautious in their dealings, even with their kin.
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Because memoirs are often the unconscious defences of the author's ego, historians aresuspiciousof them.
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They might besuspiciousthat their responses might be relayed to the security apparati of a society.
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There is much evidence that people weresuspiciousof their neighbours and large numbers thought them untrustworthy (1998 : 181).
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The presence of ductal enhancement warrants correlation with mammography to excludesuspiciouscalcifications and biopsy.
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However, for everysuspiciousperson hidden from public view a replacement arrived from the countryside.
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If all prefixes undergo a certain process, it would seemsuspiciousthat they all happen to end with the same ghost consonant underlyingly.
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The other study [34] assessed 79 culture-negative cases classified by physicians assuspiciousfor meningococcal disease during a meningococcal vaccine field trial.
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