suspicious
/səˈspɪʃ.əs/ adjective B2- Arousing suspicion. · His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
- Distrustful or tending to suspect. · We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
- Expressing suspicion · She gave me a suspicious look.
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d’Avrigny to superintend all the arrangements consequent upon a death in a large city, more especially a death under such suspicious circumstances.
“Why, you know I told you,” replied Danglars, “that I considered the circumstance of his having anchored at the Island of Elba as a very suspicious circumstance.”
We had said nothing to him about it, so that his alluding to it had a most suspicious aspect.”
Your arrest as a suspicious character would be a most unfortunate complication.”
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