suspiciousness

IPA: sʌspˈɪʃʌsnʌs

noun

  • The state or quality of being suspicious in the sense of arousing suspicion.
  • The state or quality of being suspicious in the sense of being distrustful or tending to suspect.
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Examples of "suspiciousness" in Sentences

  • I deny my 'suspiciousness' altogether ” it is not one of my faults.
  • I deny my 'suspiciousness' altogether -- it is not one of my faults.
  • Given the suspiciousness of the account, that should not be unreasonable.
  • I will smother down all my pride, my reserve, the horrible suspiciousness which is rooted in my nature.
  • Hofstadter, writing in 1964, described the hallmarks of this style: "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy."
  • Carron, who got two months of service for 117 pesos, is relating to us his very positive and encouraging story, and that ought to go a long way toward assuaging some of my negativity and suspiciousness.
  • This style, which Hofstadter understood to include a “sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy,” today finds its clearest expression on talk radio — and not just at night.
  • Dr Harold Lief, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, concluded that Hoover suffered from a personality disorder, a narcissistic disorder with mixed obsessive features… paranoid elements, undue suspiciousness and some sadism.
  •    Hours earlier, after he noticed the missing knife and as the sun began to haul itself yellow and warm into the Manhattan sky, X watched out the corner of his eye as the black-haired man, acting with a cagey lack of suspiciousness, coolly arranged himself on his threadbare blanket and laid down his few possessions and went to sleep on the grass.
  • The inherent suspiciousness of the anti-Islam movement is so rich that its participants are unable to reconcile the contradiction between their narrative of secretive Islamic terrorists pursuing "jihad" and the high-profile, publicly conciliatory moves such as the Cordoba Initiative's efforts to purchase a building near Ground Zero and convert it into a public community center.

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