Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To consider (something) to be true or probable on little or no evidence.
- intransitive verb To have doubts about (something); distrust.
- intransitive verb To consider (a person) guilty without proof.
- intransitive verb To have suspicion.
- noun One who is suspected, especially of having committed a crime.
- adjective Open to or viewed with suspicion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To imagine to exist; have a vague or slight opinion of the existence of, often on weak or trivial evidence; mistrust; surmise.
- To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence or without proof.
- To hold to be uncertain; doubt; mistrust; distrust.
- To look up to; respect; esteem.
- To imagine guilt, danger, or the like; be suspicious.
- noun Suspicion.
- noun A vague or slight opinion.
- Suspected; suspicious.
- Doubtful; uncertain.
- noun A suspected person; one suspected of a crime, offense, or the like.
- noun Something suspicious; something causing suspicion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
- adjective obsolete Suspected; distrusted.
- noun obsolete Suspicion.
- noun One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
- intransitive verb To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
- transitive verb To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong.
- transitive verb To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof.
- transitive verb To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct.
- transitive verb obsolete To look up to; to respect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
imagine orsuppose (something) to betrue without evidence. - verb transitive To
distrust or havedoubts about (something or someone). - verb transitive To
believe (someone) to beguilty . - verb intransitive To have
suspicion . - noun A person who is suspected of something, in particular of
committing acrime . - adjective To be viewed with
suspicion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb imagine to be the case or true or probable
- adjective not as expected
- noun a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
- verb hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty
- verb regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
- noun someone who is under suspicion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term suspect is an investigative term, not a legal term, Nancy.
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Personally, I believe that if a suspect is arrested and then convicted, his “demographic” is not the defining basis of that conviction.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Continuing Downsides of Having a “Colorful” Sheriff 2009
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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.
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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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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.
What We See 2009
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Law enforcement officials said the suspect is the person who bought the Nissan Pathfinder used in the bombing attempt.
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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.
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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.
Rubio: Miranda rights could hamper terror investigations 2010
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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.
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Martin - the term suspect is a legal term which refers to someone suspected of having committed a criminal offence.
Good For The Goose « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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