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Meanings of suspicious in English
Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
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Examples for "wary"
Examples for "wary"
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Analysts said broader concerns about euro zone debt levels kept investors wary.
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Businesses need to be extra wary at tax time, Mr Wearne said.
3
While many children are wary of animals, some children just love them.
4
However, despite emerging data, many surgeons remain wary of computer-assisted orthopedic surgery.
5
Confused and wary, Sano nevertheless decided to take advantage of the situation.
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A good man, Louis thought, but doctors became leery of people fast.
2
They also have reason to be leery of a potential political backlash.
3
But you get leery of any kind of mystery in the Deathlands.
4
The other few people in the Dunkin' Donuts shot us leery looks.
5
Richard liked the idea of having robot assistants, but Nicole was leery.
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They seem surprised and still mistrustful of finding themselves unharmed and unmolested.
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Rose's two or three friends were, like herself, mistrustful of the world.
3
Three black dogs with wild, mistrustful eyes kept close to his heels.
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I should have been more mistrustful; this solution was too simple, too natural.
5
He had changed towards me; he had become very reserved and seemed mistrustful.
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God forbid our professional deceivers should have to feel paranoid and untrusting.
2
The Mogadorians are different than we are, secretive and manipulative, untrusting of almost everything.
3
How do we tackle inequality when the coffers are empty and the electorate untrusting?
4
At first, he had been wary of her, even untrusting.
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You hate to say anything that sounds hostile or untrusting or small-hearted around him.
Usage of suspicious in English
1
Mr Ross said police wanted to hear of any other suspicious activity.
2
A former Nauru justice minister says a planned constitutional change is suspicious.
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Xavier gave her a suspicious look but allowed the change of subject.
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Structuring is the suspicious activity that banks most often report to authorities.
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Police have appealed for anyone who saw anything suspicious to come forward.
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The problem with war was that it made us all so suspicious.
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Swedbank also failed to report suspicious transactions and activities, the report said.
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As a result, suspicious MRI lesions were superimposed onto the TRUS data.
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President Theodore Roosevelt had reason to be suspicious of New York City.
10
Maybe she really wanted to check for anything suspicious in the food.
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Tears sounded in the voices, showed in suspicious redness round the eyes.
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At this stage they said there appeared to be no suspicious circumstances.
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They have asked the public in Invercargill to report any suspicious activity.
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The IRA last night admitted responsibility for the bombs and suspicious devices.
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She was small and neatly suspicious and too good for her position.
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I must have said something wrong because Jacki's expression become instantly suspicious.
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