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suspected

/səsˈpɛktɪd/ adjective B2
  1. believed to be a cause or at fault. · Bring in the suspected vandal.· Three casualties were admitted with suspected fractures in their heads.
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But bear in mind, that should there fall in your way anyone guilty of conspiring against the government, you will be so much the more bound to visit the offence with rigorous punishment, as it is known you belong to a suspected family.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 46 · C1
He smelled around the stuffed man as if he suspected there might be a nest of rats in the straw, and he often growled in an unfriendly way at the Scarecrow.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 19 · B2
Villefort, as we have seen, belonged to the aristocratic party at Marseilles, Morrel to the plebeian; the first was a royalist, the other suspected of Bonapartism.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 58 · C1
This person, a sailor, of turbulent character, and whom I suspected of Bonapartism, has been secretly to the Island of Elba.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 97 · C1

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