1.
If you say that one thing looks or sounds ~ like another thing, you mean that it probably is that thing, or something very similar to it, although it may be intended to seem different.
The tan-coloured dog looks ~ like an American pit bull terrier...
ADV: ADV prep
2.
You can use ~ when you are describing something that you think is slightly strange or not as it should be.
He lives alone in a ~ tidy flat in Notting Hill Gate...
ADV: ADV adj/adv
3.
see also suspicious