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Suspect   /səspˈɛkt/  /sˈəspˌɛkt/   Listen
Suspect

verb
(past & past part. suspected; pres. part. suspecting)
1.
Imagine to be the case or true or probable.  Synonym: surmise.  "I surmised that the butler did it"
2.
Regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in.  Synonyms: distrust, mistrust.  Antonym: trust.
3.
Hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty.
noun
1.
Someone who is under suspicion.
2.
A person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused.  Synonym: defendant.  Antonym: plaintiff.
adjective
1.
Not as expected.  Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspicious.  "Up to some funny business" , "Some definitely queer goings-on" , "A shady deal" , "Her motives were suspect" , "Suspicious behavior"



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"Suspect" Quotes from Famous Books



... would suspect it to be an active geyser. But in 1871, a column of water entirely filling the crater shot from it, which by actual measurement was found to be two hundred and ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes
... he belongs to tied me up!" complained the boy. "I'm going to get even on this geek! We can walk right down on him at any time now. He'll never suspect that we're pirates." ...
— The Boy Scout Camera Club - The Confession of a Photograph • G. Harvey Ralphson
... nodded. "You have forgotten your names—ah! Yours," he pointed to me, "was Ainslee, and it still is. And you are Monsieur Foulet. But Brice—" he paused. My heart hung in my breast, suspended there with terror. What was the matter with Brice? What did Fraser suspect—or know? He turned to the doctor. "You will give Inspector Brice another injection," he said. "The Inspector has a strong mind, and a clever one. A normal injection ...
— The Floating Island of Madness • Jason Kirby
... may be thus translated: "Peter de Baldwyn holds in Combes, in the county of Surrey, by the service to go a wool gathering for our Lady the Queen among the White Thorns, and if he refuses to gather it he shall pay into the Treasury of our Lord the King xxs. per annum." I should almost suspect a false reading, as the editor is inclined to do, but that many other services, equally curious and improbable, ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... and Tom Wealdon would probably be one of the first men whom he would see. He must 'hang out the signal' in 'Galignani.' Lake could never suspect its meaning, even were he to see it. There was but one risk in it, which was in the coarse perfidy of Mark Welder himself, who would desire no better fun, in some of his moods, than boasting to Lake of the whole arrangement in Jos. ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu


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