suspect
IPA: sʌspˈɛkt
noun
- A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
verb
- (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
- (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
- (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.
- (intransitive) To have suspicion.
- (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
adjective
- Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
- (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
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Examples of "suspect" in Sentences
- He espoused the suspect.
- He is suspected of peculation.
- I suspect that they bilked me.
- The people suspected the connivance.
- The substance is a suspected carcinogen.
- Butler found the suspect in the kitchen.
- I suspect that it's the laudatory vocabulary.
- It was suspected to misappropriate the donation.
- I suspect it is not therefore an unshared IP in the strict sense.
- The term suspect is an investigative term, not a legal term, Nancy.
- Martin - the term suspect is a legal term which refers to someone suspected of having committed a criminal offence.
- Law enforcement officials said the suspect is the person who bought the Nissan Pathfinder used in the bombing attempt.
- I just approved that operational plan, a pure intelligence project that seeks to incarcerate a group of suspected criminals.
- Personally, I believe that if a suspect is arrested and then convicted, his “demographic” is not the defining basis of that conviction.
- BUT when a suspect is arrested and interrogated, then the police officer had better had Mirandized the suspect or anything said during the interrogation is tossed out because he hadn't been Mirandized.
- There shouldn't be exceptions to this, and it shouldn't be based on the question of whether or not a suspect is a prisoner of war, an "enemy combatant," a person of interest, or just a bunch of anti-Semitic crack addicts in the Bronx.
- It does not matter whether the suspect is a black, white or red man, the most important point here is that a man was being suspected for burgling his own house, his yelling could have made an intelligent officer to suspect that something must be wrong with the whole situation.
- Its a common place of my community, and the fact that people don't know that I learned how to think about this from listening to my parents and their friends sit around the living room and talk about tv, movies, and 'the suspect is a black male' does not mean it did not happen.
- It does not matter whether the suspect is a black, white or red man, the most important point here is that a man was being suspected for burgling his own house, his yelling could have made an intelligent officer to suspect that something must be wrong with the whole situation. stevegee
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