suspiciously

advdoubtingly

Synonyms for suspiciously

adv doubtingly

Word Origin & History

"deserving of or exciting suspicion," mid-14c., from Old French suspecious, from Latin suspiciosus "exciting suspicion" (see suspicion). Meaning "full of or inclined to feel suspicion" is attested from c.1400. Edgar Allan Poe (c.1845) proposed suspectful to take one of the two conflicting senses. Related: suspiciously; suspiciousness.

Example Sentences for suspiciously

Mrs. McKee eyed her suspiciously, but Tillie's face showed no emotion.

Rosenfeld eyed him suspiciously, but, possessing a sense of humor also, he grinned.

Dorcas Jane, who was eleven and a half and not at all imaginative, eyed him suspiciously.

You, my reader, will probably have glanced at it as suspiciously as did Arthur Channing.

It was an old, black-looking piece of wood, and I glanced at it suspiciously.

Coryston walked up the garden path, looking about him suspiciously.

They paused with instant alarm, and looked at each other suspiciously.

He sprang away from it, and from a distance studied it suspiciously.

She looked at Grace keenly, suspiciously, but with no sign of recognition.

She was rather pale, and her eyes were of a suspiciously excessive brightness.

suspiciously

Synonyms for suspiciously

doubtfully

dubiously

gingerly

questioningly

skeptically

suspiciously

Synonyms for suspiciously

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