Synonyms for suspicious
səˈspɪʃ əssus·pi·cious

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1. suspicious

   One is envious who cherishes selfish ill will toward another because of his superior success, endowments, possessions, or the like. A person is envious of that which is another's, and to which he himself has no right or claim; he is jealous of intrusion upon that which is his own, or to which he maintains a right or claim. An envious spirit is always bad; a jealous spirit may be good or bad, according to its object and tendency. A free people must be jealous of their liberties if they would retain them. One is suspicious of another from unfavorable indications or from a knowledge of wrong in his previous conduct, or even without reason. Compare DOUBT.

   Synonyms:
   envious, jealous

   Antonyms:
   contented, friendly, kindly, satisfied, trustful, well-disposed

   Preposition:
   Envious of (formerly at or against) a person; envious of his wealth or power; envious of him for, because of, on account of his wealth or power.

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1. leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, waryadjective

   openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

   Synonyms:
   fishy, leery, wary, shady, funny, suspect, untrusting, mistrustful

   Antonyms:
   trustful, trusting, unquestionable

2. fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspiciousadjective

   not as expected

   "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"

   Synonyms:
   fly-by-night, shady, louche, comic, laughable, rum, shadowed, untrusting, umbrageous, singular, odd, wary, amusing, comical, leery, funny, mirthful, risible, fishy, peculiar, shadowy, mistrustful, suspect, rummy, curious

   Antonyms:
   unquestionable, trustful, trusting

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1. unnervingly

   because unnervingly means you think something is odd which is the definition of suspicious.

   Submitted by rinat on August 28, 2019  

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1. suspiciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   distrustful, jealous, inclined to suspect, given to suspicion

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1. List of paraphrases for "suspicious":

   suspect, suspected, dubious, questionable, doubtful, suspects, distrustful, mistrustful, unsub, wary, shady, dodgy

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1. Ed Marta:

   Some people are still very suspicious, they are suspicious of drugs coming from the central government and are even concerned about the insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

2. William Frey:

   There is nothing suspicious about winning the presidency with a smaller number of counties, counties vary widely in size, with large urban and suburban counties – areas where Biden did best – housing far larger populations than most of the outer suburb, small town and rural counties that Trump won.

3. Brice Loose:

   We were n’t looking for volcanism, we were using these gases to trace other actions, when we first started seeing high concentrations of helium-3, we thought we had a cluster of bad or suspicious data.

4. Kate Beckinsale:

   My mum’s voice is in my head, very loud, at all times. My mum wouldn’t even get a facial, she is suspicious of anything like that, and looks f-----g radiant and amazing. I know if I did do Botox, I’d be the one that would get the droopy eye, and my mum would go, ‘I f-----g told you! See? You should never do that.’.

5. Dave Walton:

   I really hope we can finally get some answers to what happened, right now, I am suspicious of anything Biden will say about his commitment to ethanol, but we do need to hear from him.