Found 2 hits - Term: suspiciousness, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
suspicious \suspi"cious\, a. oe. suspecious; cf. l.
suspiciosus. see suspicion.
1. inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to
imagine without proof.
1913 webster
nature itself, after it has done an injury, will
ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person
he suspects. --south.
1913 webster
many mischievous insects are daily at work to make
men of merit suspicious of each other. --pope.
1913 webster
2. indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
1913 webster
we have a suspicious, fearful, constrained
countenance. --swift.
1913 webster
3. liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving
reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of
suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
1913 webster
i spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.
--shak.
1913 webster
syn: jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful;
questionable. see jealous.
1913 webster -- suspi"ciously, adv. --
suspi"ciousness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
suspicion jealous suspi"ciously suspi"ciousness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
suspiciousness
n : being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed
his marriage" syn: suspicion
see also:
suspicion
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