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US
/səˈspɪʃən/
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[ UK /səspˈɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /səspˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the state of being suspected
he tried to shield me from suspicion -
an impression that something might be the case
he had an intuition that something had gone wrong -
being of a suspicious nature
his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage - doubt about someone's honesty
How To Use suspicion In A Sentence
- There were heavily armed security forces on every street corner and there was a great deal of distrust and suspicion.
- Following the sound, Silk found himself among the sellers he sought Hobbled deer reared and plunged, their soft brown eyes wild with fright; a huge snake lifted its flat, malevolent head, hissing like a kettle on the stove; live salmon gasped and splashed in murky, glass-fronted tanks; pigs grunted, lambs baaed, chickens squawked, and milling goats eyed passersby with curiosity and sharp suspicion. Nightside The Long Sun
- The Canadian police doubted he was a genuine amnesiac and held him on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.
- In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
- That night, to reduce suspicion, I decide to go drinking with the trishaw drivers.
- I had a suspicion that he was there.
- Politeness is not always the sign of wisdom, but the want of it always leaves room for the suspicion of folly.
- This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
- This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- Yet suspicion of other people's culinary rectitude, along with the practicality of an earth sign, helps make well-adjusted Virgoans splendid cooks.