Adjective: suspicious su'spi-shus
- Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
"He was suspicious of how the difficult situation would work out";
- leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary, mistrusting
- Of questionable motive; of doubtful legality, value, truth, honesty, etc.
"suspicious behaviour";
- fishy [informal], funny, shady [informal], suspect, dodgy [Brit, informal], sus [informal]
See also: distrustful, questionable
Encyclopedia: Suspicious