suspicious
US /səˈspɪʃəs/
adjective Advanced · C1 Đời sống hằng ngày
Definition
openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
Please report any suspicious package that you see in the lobby.
Word Family
Synonyms
- doubtfulopen to doubt or suspicion; ; ; ; - Karen Horney
- questionablesubject to question
- fishyof or relating to or resembling fish
Collocations
- Easy suspicious behaviordescribing suspicious behavior (openly distrustful and unwilling to confide)
- Medium report suspicious transactions to compliance officersto report suspicious transactions to compliance officers, meaning to to give an account or representation of in words
- Hard suspicious ledger alterations flagged by auditorsdescribing suspicious ledger alterations flagged by auditors (openly distrustful and unwilling to confide)
- Very Hard deeply suspicious of the counterparty's hidden motivesdescribing deeply suspicious of the counterparty's hidden motives (to a great depth psychologically)
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