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SUSPICION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being of a suspicious nature
Example:
his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("suspicion" is a kind of...):
distrust; distrustfulness; mistrust (the trait of not trusting others)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Doubt about someone's honesty
Synonyms:
distrust; misgiving; mistrust; suspicion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("suspicion" is a kind of...):
doubt; doubtfulness; dubiety; dubiousness; incertitude; uncertainty (the state of being unsure of something)
Derivation:
suspect (regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in)
suspicious (openly distrustful and unwilling to confide)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An impression that something might be the case
Example:
he had an intuition that something had gone wrong
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("suspicion" is a kind of...):
belief; feeling; impression; notion; opinion (a vague idea in which some confidence is placed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suspicion"):
bosom; heart (the locus of feelings and intuitions)
Derivation:
suspect (imagine to be the case or true or probable)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state of being suspected
Example:
he tried to shield me from suspicion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("suspicion" is a kind of...):
antagonism; enmity; hostility (a state of deep-seated ill-will)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suspicion"):
cloud (suspicion affecting your reputation)
Derivation:
suspect (hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty)
Context examples:
They cannot interfere on the strength of what would appear to them to be a wild suspicion.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He looked with sudden suspicion at Madge, and added, "Only you must play fair. No persuadin' after my back is turned."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Oh! it is more than a suspicion.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To this question his daughter replied only with a laugh; and as it had been asked without the least suspicion, she was not distressed by his repeating it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Alas! it all went to confirm me in my first horrible suspicion, and to turn it into a certainty.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This, and Marianne's blushing, gave new suspicions to Edward.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I confess I had my suspicions, but it was only yesterday afternoon they were at once resolved into certainty.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Now it so happened that on this very day the queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
They arrested three for "suspicion of trespassing" and another for an incident related to alcohol.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
