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suspicious

adj
/səˈspɪʃ.əs/

Etymology

From Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus.

  1. derived from suspiciosus
  2. derived from sospecious

Definitions

  1. Arousing suspicion.

    • His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
    • If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.

  2. Distrustful or tending to suspect.

    • We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
    • Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue, Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie, Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge, I ſtand agaſt: […]

  3. Expressing suspicion

    • She gave me a suspicious look.

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Derived

non-suspicious, nonsuspicious, oversuspicious, supersuspicious, sus, suspiciously, suspiciousness, unsuspicious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at suspicious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at suspicious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at suspicious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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