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suspicious
adjective as in distrustful
Strongest matches
apprehensive, careful, cautious, doubtful, incredulous, jealous, leery, mistrustful, skeptical, wary, watchful
adjective as in doubtful, fishy
Strongest matches
Weak matches
borderline, debatable, different, disputable, doubtable, equivocal, farfetched, funny, irregular, not kosher, open, open to doubt, open to question, out of line, overt, peculiar, phony, problematic, reaching, rings untrue, shady, shaky, suspect, too much, uncommon, won't wash
Example Sentences
In its report, Sapo mentioned suspicious incidents involving infrastructure and which countries may have been behind "in some cases".
Authorities, at first, said the grim discovery was "suspicious enough" to launch an investigation.
"I have a sneaky suspicious something weird could happen down at the Principality," Dawson said on Rugby Union Weekly.
When the Spanish conquistadors arrived they were suspicious at first, and the Catholic Church declared coca to be the work of the devil.
At first glance there was nothing suspicious about the group of workmen digging up the high street outside a former clothes shop.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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