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suspiciousness


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Suspicious  \Sus*pi"cious\,  a.  [OE.  suspecious;  cf  L. 
  suspiciosus.  See  {Suspicion}.] 
  1.  Inclined  to  suspect;  given  or  prone  to  suspicion;  apt  to 
  imagine  without  proof. 
 
  Nature  itself  after  it  has  done  an  injury,  will 
  ever  be  suspicious;  and  no  man  can  love  the  person 
  he  suspects.  --South. 
 
  Many  mischievous  insects  are  daily  at  work  to  make 
  men  of  merit  suspicious  of  each  other  --Pope. 
 
  2.  Indicating  suspicion,  mistrust,  or  fear. 
 
  We  have  a  suspicious,  fearful,  constrained 
  countenance.  --Swift. 
 
  3.  Liable  to  suspicion;  adapted  to  raise  suspicion;  giving 
  reason  to  imagine  ill;  questionable;  as  an  author  of 
  suspicious  innovations;  suspicious  circumstances. 
 
  I  spy  a  black,  suspicious,  threatening  could 
  --Shak. 
 
  Syn:  Jealous;  distrustful;  mistrustful;  doubtful; 
  questionable.  See  {Jealous}.  --  {Sus*pi"cious*ly},  adv 
  --  {Sus*pi"cious*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  suspiciousness 
  n  :  being  of  a  suspicious  nature;  "his  suspiciousness  destroyed 
  his  marriage"  [syn:  {suspicion}] 




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