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suspiciously

adverb B2
  1. In a way suggesting suspicion. · The police officer looked at her suspiciously.
  2. In a way that arouses suspicion. · She was behaving very suspiciously.
  3. Causing suspicion. · Suspiciously, he had taken out an insurance policy on his wife just months earlier.
  4. To a degree that makes one suspect something. · It looked suspiciously like a molding-compound repair of a dent.· Her paper was suspiciously well-written.
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"Half a mo'," said the boxer, looking suspiciously at the bedroom door.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 43 · B2
Danglars began to look suspiciously at Morcerf, when someone came and whispered a few words to him.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 787 · C1

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