Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Apt to suspect or mistrust.
- Exciting suspicion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious.
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- adjective
Mistrustful ,suspicious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whence to include the whole nation, and those that never yet thus offended, under such a diffident and suspectful prohibition, may plainly be understood what a disparagement it is.
Areopagitica 2007
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Whence to include the whole nation, and those that never yet thus offended, under such a diffident and suspectful prohibition, may plainly be understood what a disparagement it is.
Areopagitica 2007
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Whence to include the whole nation, and those that never yet thus offended, under such a diffident84 and suspectful prohibition, may plainly be understood what a disparagement it is.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909
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Whence to include the whole nation, and those that never yet thus offended, under such a diffident and suspectful prohibition, may plainly be understood what a disparagement it is.
Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641
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I am almost thinking, in fact highly suspectful, that you are an agent of Ms. Huffington’s here and just trying to stir the pot.
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