suspicion
IPA: sʌspˈɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
- The condition of being suspected.
- Uncertainty, doubt.
- A trace, or slight indication.
- The imagining of something without evidence.
verb
- (dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
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Examples of "suspicion" in Sentences
- The prudence of these worthy friends they term suspicion, and their experience dotage.
- My main suspicion is that it's the weather changing - specifically the higher pressure.
- My suspicion is that energy conservation and better batteries may be the "killer app" for nanotechnology over the next decade.
- Of course, the suspicion is that the Stimulus money is not meant for things like unemployment or highway funding … not now, at least.
- But my suspicion is that he will end up like Randall Cunnignham, another fantastic all around athelete who didn't make it as a quarterback.
- And my suspicion is that the ultimate goal of teaching any and all of these books is really just to find something the kids "can relate to," itself a goal without substance as far as teaching is concerned.
- His erect position in itself started to drive the webs of suspicion from the dog's mind; and when he spoke peremptorily, with the sound of whip-lashes in his voice, the dog rendered its customary allegiance and came to him.
- My suspicion is that the java fern, which has nearly taken over the entire tank, may have been hiding bits of detrius -- food, waste, rotten eggs (from the multiple spawnings of the minnows), and any number of other ugliness.
- My suspicion is that the parental (and high school) emphasis on extra-curricular resume is an error based on the way that things used to be, when elite colleges used to be focused on the upper classes and their specific cultural values.
- My suspicion is that threshold effects (e.g. name recognition) and declining marginal value effects (e.g. airwave saturation) dominate political advertising, and therefore the main outcome of campaign finance restrictions is to strengthen establishment candidates (and Republicans, generally) over outsider candidates.
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