overly suspicious
Example Sentences
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I’m sometimes overly suspicious, especially when we’re dealing with hetero-to-heteroflexible cis men.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2021
American movies are so very good at violence that we can be overly suspicious of onscreen love, embarrassed by our sniffles and sobs.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
Encinia was trained to be overly suspicious and was “terrified” of Bland, Gladwell says — apparently taking the officer’s statements at face value.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2019
It’s not overly suspicious, or cold, or unforgiving, for you to remember the wrongs your mother has committed in the past, even as she presently makes an attempt to move in a better direction.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2018
Though he preferred other grounds for reversal, Judge Charles Fahy agreed; but the third judge, George MacKinnon, dissented, accusing Judge Bazelon of being "overly suspicious" of "socalled political pressures."
From Time Magazine Archive
