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  • I clicked the 'Live Chat' button, and lo and behold, I was deposited in a chat room with what sounded suspiciously like a chatbot.
  • You might well feel a tad suspicious of this literary agent's good fortune. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was suspicious of his motives.
  • He warned the public to be vigilant and report anything suspicious.
  • The 16th century palace in south-west London is well known for alleged supernatural activity, but nothing suspicious has been caught on film before.
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  • In fact he was suspicious of any technological advance that might weaken the ‘master race’.
  • Not all the speakers have couched their sentiments in complimentary language, indeed, it is a fact which we citizens of the Empire would be foolish to ignore that important sections of opinion among our American friends and elsewhere are rather suspicious of the British Empire. The Empire In These Days
  • His reluctance to answer my questions made me suspicious .
  • Her house was fitted with a device to detect suspicious packages and a button to alert police. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the CAF were the only one, it would be very suspicious. Liberals Go To Bat For Khaled Mouammar « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
  • Would I know one rider from another under that mask, if I had no reason to be suspicious?
  • You mentioned the suspicious package was left in front of that precinct building.
  • Many an oversuspicious person will find advantage in remembering what a too liberal application of Foxey's principle of suspecting everybody brought The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
  • She was always suspicious of strangers.
  • Many listeners are, rightly, suspicious of free jazz as a refuge for those who simply cannnot "play" in the accepted sense.
  • Public opinion, already highly skeptical and suspicious of European Institutions, reached new lows.
  • Around the same time, another man, a white male in his 40s, also passed through that alley and became the initial suspect in the case, because authorities thought it suspicious that he removed an overshirt and seemed to be looking in the direction of the car bomb. Getaway Car Waited, but Key Was Lost
  • He was a suspicious cat, wary of people getting pensive.
  • He has his father's suspicious nature.
  • Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies.
  • He, learning that she now employs his page, is astonished at her unsuspicious nature.
  • A man is under arrest following the suspicious death of his wife.
  • The fires are being treated as suspicious and are under investigation by police.
  • Meanwhile, it emerged last night that there had been a suspicious dope test during the championships. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am, for example, as suspicious of authors in tweedy jackets or carrying pipes as I am of professors with elbow patches - they seem to be playing a role that shows how they envision themselves as Author, rather than beign who they are. Archive 2008-04-01
  • I would appeal to people to be vigilant and report any suspicious behaviour near farms.
  • He was a whitebeard whose bushy brows overhung his suspicious old eyes. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
  • Fighter interceptors stayed on high alert, ready to respond within minutes to identify and monitor suspicious aircraft.
  • The ridiculous overacting left the bureaucrat completely unsuspicious.
  • The only hint of fear in the company was the presence of two tall gorilla bodyguards clasping small automatic fire-arms, who glared at us suspiciously as we approached, but made no attempt to stop us.
  • It was as if the suspicious affair which was impassioning the Chamber had no concern for him. The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
  • If he'd been at all nervous or twitchy or had anything suspicious about him, I would have picked it up right away.
  • The watch was suspiciously cheap; it was probably a fake.
  • He said people who see someone acting suspiciously near a home should call the police straightaway.
  • Then there's another police chief, suspicious of the veteran cop's dubious tactics on the job.
  • The campaign warns people not to let the caller in if they are suspicious, or to be pressured into a hasty decision and pay any money up front.
  • Abusers are often suspicious and jealous, suffer from low self-esteem and need to assert themselves.
  • The listeners grow suspicious with his self-defence story and discover the truth concerns them all.
  • Another lawsuit is pending in Germany against the Opel division of General Motors, this one for a version of the Brahms 'Lullaby' performed in what he calls a suspiciously Waitsian voice. Archive 2006-01-01
  • A spokesperson added: 'There do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances. The Sun
  • That sort of warm repartee - delivered, as always, with a hearty guffaw - is one of the things Beazley detractors are suspicious about.
  • `And perhaps you're suspicious of him only in order to clear your conscience about seeing him again, despite little wifey back at home. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • One becomes suspicious of every person in the vicinity while providing security to VVIPs.
  • Since Ford had used the word assassinations, we assumed we were looking for persons who had been murdered—possibly persons who had died under suspicious circumstances. Staying Tuned
  • And now many suspicious minds have concluded there is more than one person masquerading as the King.
  • She didn't have her natural spunkiness, which made everyone a little suspicious.
  • Her house was fitted with a device to detect suspicious packages and a button to alert police. Times, Sunday Times
  • WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Republican National Committee was placed in lockdown for 1.5 hours Tuesday afternoon after a suspicious package was discovered in the mailroom. Suspicious package closes RNC
  • He's gone out of his way not to mention his blue-blooded carousing, because he knows it would make the average citizen puke themselves into a coma, and one side-effect of this is that he seems shifty and suspicious. Birthday Boy
  • Mr. Steele, if I didn't know better, I would be suspicious that you are just plain jealous of Pres. Steele: Obama should not declare economic success
  • And then there were the bones-a bear's digit, with the great curved claw still attached; the complete vertebrae of a small snake, articulated and strung on a leather thong, so the whole string flexed in a lifelike manner; an assortment of teeth, ranging from a string of round, peglike things that Jamie said came from a seal, through the high-crowned, scythe-cusped teeth of deer, to something that looked suspiciously like a human molar. Dragonfly in Amber
  • We do not want to watch his ‘out of control’ yet suspiciously manipulative antics nor listen to his condescending, holier-than-thou judgments.
  • The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • Early today, they did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances and said they thought it was a tragic accident.
  • I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design.
  • He looked at it suspiciously, and as he grabbed for it, the thunder only began to clamor loudly, sending more rain to beat down on the mansion.
  • His stockbroking colleagues were a bit suspicious of him at first, but his hard work and the business he brought in changed their minds, and when the book came out and they realised exactly what his background was and how great a journey he'd made, they became both supportive and proud of him. In London for the publication of his autobiography, Li Cunxin talks to ballet.co.uk about the book and about his life as a dancer.
  • Community officers working in Warminster are now urging residents to look out for elderly relatives and raise the alarm if they see suspicious callers.
  • Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
  • The one on the rock looked over slowly, highly suspicious.
  • A man is under arrest following the suspicious death of his wife.
  • Personally, I have seen some suspicious tracks, but they were rain blurred, and have heard some screeches (not owls) that I couldn't put a name to, but have no real reason to believe that there are any in my neck of the woods. How many people out there think or know there are mountain lions in your state? Please remember to list your state.
  • Police say there are no suspicious circumstances and a coroner has been informed.
  • This is a recipe for a resentful, suspicious, self-interested, and racially hostile polity.
  • Logan's military assignments made him naturally suspicious of strangers who questioned him, but Marie was different.
  • She also has suspiciously total recall of extended conversations. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Saleem felt that people were suspicious of him because he was a foreigner.
  • Investigators are looking into the incident but they are already treating it as suspicious.
  • And I think, Oh-oh... If I was the suspicious type I'd suspect them of fixing up a rendezvous, sans moi. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • A post mortem is due to be carried out and detectives say they are treating his death as suspicious. The Sun
  • Residents had reported two youths acting suspiciously in the area and trying to open doors and windows.
  • He has his father's suspicious nature.
  • During this period, the US policy on the regional cooperation of East Asia is suspiciousness or even denial.
  • Police called Juliana's death suspicious from the beginning. Daytondailynews.com - News
  • Anastasia stood still, looking around for anything suspicious, but nothing happened.
  • Please report any suspicious activities to the authorities immediately.
  • Here's what's surprising to me: 27 percent had come to the attention of supervisors for suspicious activities prior to the crime they were caught committing.
  • I peer suspiciously at my co-workers lunches to see what they’re shoveling in there that comes out so malodorously. The Bog Report « XUP
  • We're still well suspicious but some of the guys ask `im if ` e 's heard anything about the races the next day. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • We did not answer, because now, for the first time, it came over all of us, in a rush of blushes and uncomfortableness, that burying a fox is a suspicious act. The Wouldbegoods
  • Flying on the wings of an ubiquitous electric slide guitar, a distinctive if quavering voice, and her acerbically accurate songwriting, the Ottawa songwriter has crafted what sounds suspiciously like a Canadian roots rock classic.
  • If the Police didn't think Skolnick looked suspicious, she thought, Markets would surely tag him as unwholesome. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
  • The chassis combines a lightweight aluminium frame with what look suspiciously like cycle parts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not only do they help monitor traffic movement but also track suspicious characters.
  • I think a lot of folks are quite rightly suspicious, prima faciae, of skin color - if we are serious about moving beyond this, that ought to be addressed and taken off the table as an issue. Bob Gibson Savages Scottie Griffin at cvillenews.com
  • Detectives are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious.
  • There were no suspicious circumstances and a postmortem was due to be carried out later.
  • None of eight witnesses called by the prosecution saw anyone suspicious, he maintained.
  • But it was the pungent, aromatic smell coming from the property that made the neighbours in the quiet suburban terrace increasingly suspicious. The Sun
  • She died in suspicious circumstances.
  • The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • This sounded suspiciously like an attempt to get rid of me.
  • What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate's brother.
  • He giggled, then sobered quickly and looked suspiciously out the window.
  • He warned the public to be vigilant and report anything suspicious.
  • She asked the public to be on the lookout for suspicious behaviour and to contact the police. Times, Sunday Times
  • They discovered a suspicious substance when they opened the package, which was part of the postal delivery on Thursday.
  • She thinks Alexander is a highly suspicious character, although that wouldn't require any great acumen on anyone's part.
  • None of them had noticed anything suspicious in regard to the theft of the burin. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • But given his deceit on foreign policy and duplicity on the nuclear issue, I think we have good reason to be suspicious.
  • This oversuspicious nature combined with a lack of knowledge about rubber knee length protective footwear means that Traci Bingham will never win Celebrity Big Brother. Celebrity Big Brother Betting Odds – Is Chantelle Safe?
  • Being a suspicious soul I also ran a competing companies test disk on the system.
  • She was suspicious. Was there an ulterior motive behind his request?
  • People changed their favoured password from time to time, sure, but what was suspicious was that there were several earlier files which had been encrypted with 'thatcher'. Quite Ugly One Morning
  • Police said cause had not been established but there were not thought to have been suspicious circumstances.
  • Army Ranger Handbook and the Transportation Security Administration's standard operational practices for airport screening, and encouraged conducting "fake operations" such as leaving bags that appear to be suspicious packages in public places to "desensitize" federal agents. Judge orders Fairfax terror suspect to remain in jail until his trial
  • A drizzling rain was still falling; great hairy-legged spiders skated over the water, making things grewsome; the large lily-pad leaves moved suspiciously, so Kali gave the orders to camp for the rest of the night. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
  • We're still well suspicious but some of the guys ask `im if ` e 's heard anything about the races the next day. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • Said paladin is only absent a few moments before returning to the bar and his suspiciously empty cider, which the bartender quickly refills without comment. Session 2.1: Arborvale « Love | Peace | Ohana
  • The network implants a large number of sleeper agents, free of past suspicious activity, giving the authorities no reason to keep an eye on them until only after they've received their cue to strike.
  • Yet, it demands motivation and expects honesty on the part of students, leading those who are suspicious to doubt the entire enterprise.
  • I suddenly realized that here I, like the tinkers of whom Della had been so suspicious, was part of a persecuted minority.
  • To make matters worse, he finds out that three of his predecessors died on the job in suspicious circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, when performing any part of the physical examination, family physicians should be alert for suspicious nevi.
  • The reply came hesitantly and in exactly the manner Tiff had expected: dispassionately and unsuspiciously. Parlor Games
  • There's a suspicious-looking van parked at the end of the road.
  • In fact it was rigged with what looked suspiciously like 10 year old and totally knackered Oxford gear!
  • The lesson of the Kolesnikov letter is that Russians are still angry, heartsore and suspicious about their government's handling of the crisis. A Cry From The Deep
  • Here, women of a certain age parade improbably large and pert bosoms encased in lime-green body suits, suspiciously taut, unwrinkled, expressionless faces, and very aged, very rich husbands on the terrace.
  • Both men are suspicious of each other, fully aware of the roles they are meant to play in society.
  • A light is shone on the cervix and the doctor looks through the colposcope (which stays outside the body) to check for any suspicious cells.
  • The stakes are raised when they find a suspicious cache of gold.
  • In the account given by the Begum, a lac, which is for Mr. Hastings's entertainment, is entered in a suspicious neighborhood; for there is there entered a lac of rupees paid for the subahdarry sunnuds to the Mogul through the Rajah Shitab Roy. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
  • The Russian government, being despotic, is naturally inclined to be suspicious, and it has long been the custom to send off persons supposed to be dangerous to the state, to live in the intensely cold and remote district of Siberia. A Book of Golden Deeds
  • Her characters are selfish and suspicious simpletons.
  • Both drugs were equally efficacious in improving auditory hallucinations and suspiciousness.
  • His acceptance of a huge loan from a shady businessman looks suspicious to say the least.
  • I think they're starting to get suspicious.
  • He was a bit of a suspicious character to encounter on the streets.
  • Why must you always be so suspicious?
  • An eagle-eyed tourist found the suspicious package.
  • But the rest of the wives are suspicious of their real motives for getting away. The Sun
  • And he is suspicious of attempts to meddle in the internal business of others.
  • But he acknowledged some business and civic leaders were suspicious at first: "They seemed to think I wanted to turn the place into the People's Republic of Traverse City.
  • But he added that officers in London, on underground and main line networks, were experiencing an increase in calls reporting suspicious packages and activity.
  • He has become suspicious of anyone trying to strike up a conversation. The Sun
  • After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet. Times, Sunday Times
  • Slender and sinister: think of Tessio in The Godfather, beetle-browed and suspicious of everything that breathes. Charlie Carillo: Dinner for Two, For One
  • Up until this season the umpire closest to any suspicious or contentious incident would review the game tape and lay a charge if warranted.
  • Police are appealing for information from people who may have noticed anything suspicious in the area.
  • We're generally suspicious of boxing and we exempt wrestling from all expectations of fair play.
  • Police said that there were no suspicious circumstances and the coroner was waiting for the results of a postmortem examination to establish the cause of death. Times, Sunday Times
  • The suspicious father even instructs his servant Reynaldo to spy on Laertes in Paris and to report on his son's behavior.
  • Republicans were suspicious about what they saw as an expanding role for the government.
  • They are all being described as cylindrical objects, suspicious. CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2006
  • He collected R4000 in wedding gifts - but a suspicious guest rumbled him and the game was up.
  • She was a very suspicious, untrusting woman, not even letting her husband fully into her heart.
  • Nobody suspicious-looking, nobody turning up more than once, except you and the cameramen. MURDER SONG
  • Judges rarely render even highly suspicious confessions inadmissible, and juries often convict confessors, even in the absence of physical evidence.
  • The duty surely includes an obligation to investigate suspicious proposals and to reject those animated by hostility to religion.
  • Grimsby and her sister ships are specifically minehunters - instead of sweeping for devices, they use powerful sonar to pick out suspicious objects in deep and exposed waters and identify them.
  • He watched, waited, listened, limiting his replies to terse remarks and subjecting Stephen all the while to an intense, suspicious scrutiny. COMPULSION
  • It looked suspiciously like a pact for maintaining the competitiveness of the German economy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although the cause is still being investigated it is not thought to be suspicious.
  • Other characters include Maggie, a keen but green young journalist; Ellen, the supportive owner of the hotel, who has her own worries; and various suspicious, inward-looking locals who don't take kindly to what they see as outside interference. Book review
  • As usual, Easy isn't much of a detective - his inquiries lead to a chain of suspicious characters who finger one another - but he could hardly be improved as a philosopher and aphorist. Little Scarlet: Summary and book reviews of Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley.
  • Use your defense moves if anyone that looks suspicious comes near you.
  • We have to carry on as usual or it would look suspicious.
  • She says when she was in the shop they looked at her suspiciously. The Glasgow Girls
  • Subject to the suggested immunity from losses, the claim for 25% looks suspiciously like the presentation of a fourth partner.
  • Always thought it was a bit odd on Cribs that the homes looked suspiciously unlived - in…
  • Already deeply suspicious of just about everything, China is no stranger to using such strong-arm tactics to regulate the Internet.
  • Architects with purist views were suspicious of his work.
  • London is most often portrayed as full of suspicious, cutthroat characters, men like Jaggers and his clients.
  • These words showed that Amelia was suspicious.
  • The boss was suspicious and told police. The Sun
  • Judges rarely render even highly suspicious confessions inadmissible, and juries often convict confessors, even in the absence of physical evidence.
  • Kitchen encouraged residents who hear shots in the area or see suspicious people to contact authorities.
  • Castle cited one particular case in which he was suspicious. Times, Sunday Times
  • It seems to have been attached with double-sided sticky tape (the back dotted with suspicious looking white squares).
  • I wasn't going to demean myself by acting like a suspicious wife.
  • Architects and critics with purist views were suspicious of Hill, but he helped to popularize the modern style.
  • His comments inspired the students, but placed him on the list of suspicious intellectuals.
  • She was highly suspicious of his motives.
  • The festival program notes for this film are dripping with superlatives, which should always make you suspicious.
  • The boss was suspicious and told police. The Sun
  • That is why you should be suspicious of any investment proposal that predicts a stream of economic rents into the indefinite future. Principles of Corporate Finance
  • In firm and lofty character, pain is mastered; in a character so little endowed with cool tenacious strength as Rousseau's, pain such as he endured was enough to account, not for his unsociality, which flowed from temperament, but for the bitter, irritable, and suspicious form which this unsociality now first assumed. Rousseau
  • Your bow tie looked suspiciously of the made-up variety. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some even began wearing gas masks to block the suspicious fumes.
  • A good example of when to use this is during discussions with someone who is very mistrustful and tends to be suspicious that the other person is trying to cheat or deceive him.
  • When I saw that Bosch appliances were now similarly priced to Zanussi, I got suspicious.
  • In addition, compared to males, females tend to be better at reading or decoding the intended messages sent by others through their nonverbal behaviour, are less suspicious of others, and are more willing to view others as truthful.
  • Her house was fitted with a device to detect suspicious packages and a button to alert police. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were suspicious about my past, my age and a picture of me that simply did not add up.
  • Anyway, sorry, hoodathunk, maybe I'm naive, but I believe that you're being oversuspicious. gopny Says: Think Progress
  • Should we worry that the government will be riffling through public and commercial databases in search of suspicious activity?
  • He saw West follow with the eight, which looked suspiciously like a singleton. Times, Sunday Times
  • He walked into the debriefing room and was greeted by General Li, a suspicious and shady character.
  • A police officer urged shop managers to check any suspicious notes using forge pens or machine readers that can help detect counterfeits.
  • Gardaí said they are not treating the death as suspicious as it is not believed her death was directly linked to the fracas.
  • The most common symptoms encountered in patients with eosinophilia were fatigue, diarrhea, or skin lesions suspicious for parasitic infection.
  • Thuriot shews himself from some pinnacle, to comfort the multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent: then descends; departs with protest; with warning addressed also to the Invalides, -- on whom, however, it produces but a mixed indistinct impression. The French Revolution
  • A single missing series also might look like a printer's error to the unsuspicious.
  • Volunteering a wager was unprecedented, therefore highly suspicious.
  • Possibly, you don't give other people credit for unselfish motives; you are too suspicious; and what you call plain talk may seem impertinence to others -- don't you think? 'Firebrand' Trevison
  • Moreover, all these wannabe startups fall suspiciously silent when you start talking about stuff like latent semantic indexing and polysemic hierarchies. Quintura Visual Search Engine Relaunches
  • Others of a less suspicious nature will wonder whether the cash is having to be raised because of the demerger. Times, Sunday Times
  • Agrippina is considered to be the murderer, because she was ambitious for her son, Nero, and Claudius had become suspicious of her intrigues.
  • You consult your umpiring partner and he agrees that it looks suspicious. Times, Sunday Times

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