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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He may be asleep now, and even were he awake what if he would rather kill his own goats?” Bagheera, who did not know much about Kaa, was naturally suspicious.
Matthew, with a suspicious moisture in his eyes, got up and went out-of-doors.
Gardiner, rendered suspicious by Elizabeth’s warm commendation of him, narrowly observed them both.
Lexington is her name—a little, dark, silent person, with suspicious and sidelong eyes.
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