Suspicion (Noun)
Meaning 1
Doubt about someone's honesty.
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
An impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- Her years of working in law enforcement had honed her ability to recognize even the faintest glimmer of suspicion in the eyes of a suspect.
- His unexpected behavior around the new policy sparked a growing suspicion within the management team that he might be planning to leave the company.
- The lack of detailed records raised the researchers' suspicion that the previous team may have fabricated their findings.
- As she walked through the abandoned house, she couldn't shake off the suspicion that someone had been there recently, watching her.
- With a sudden jolt of suspicion, he realized that his wife might be hiding something from him after finding an unexplained letter in her desk drawer.
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Meaning 3
The state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 4
Being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.