suspicion
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /sə.ˈspɪ.ʃən/
suspicion
The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong. - The condition of being suspected.
- Uncertainty, doubt.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
- A trace, or slight indication.
- a suspicion of a smile
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion […] of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
- The imagining of something without evidence.
- French: suspicion, soupçon
- German: Verdacht, Argwohn
- Italian: sospetto
- Portuguese: suspeita, suspeição
- Russian: подозре́ние
- Spanish: sospecha, suspicacia
- German: Verdacht
- Russian: подозре́ние
- German: Verdacht
- German: Verdächtigung
suspicion (suspicions, present participle suspicioning; past and past participle suspicioned)
- (nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
- Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned, for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home. […]
- 2012, B. M. Bower, Cow-Country (page 195)
- "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.
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