adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
die in suspicious/mysterious circumstances (= used to say that someone may have been killed )
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He got involved with drug dealers and died in mysterious circumstances.
suspicious circumstances (= making you think something illegal has happened )
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Officers said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Yet it will strike others as suspicious , if well meaning, sleight-of-hand.
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Police are treating both fires as suspicious and damage is estimated at £40,000.
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Originally, the Middlesbrough man's death was treated as suspicious and the pub sealed off as police questioned teatime drinkers.
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Police are not treating the death as suspicious .
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Police confirmed they were not treating the fire as suspicious .
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Not suspect: Police are not treating the death of woman found in Cleveland woods as suspicious .
deeply
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David Widgery was deeply immersed in student politics, and deeply suspicious of It.
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It's hardly surprising that we should be deeply suspicious of any attempt to deal with a subject as charged as rape.
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She's deeply suspicious of the circumstances.
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He is deeply suspicious about Western intentions on his continent.
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This liberty was short-lived however. parliament, deeply suspicious of the King's intentions, proclaimed his Declaration illegal in February.
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His refusal to compromise and his deeply suspicious nature was spoiling the pleasure of actually being part of the group.
highly
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Obviously he behaved in a highly suspicious manner today, but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things.
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The one on the rock looked over slowly, highly suspicious .
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He found two types, the highly suspicious and the willing business partners.
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She thinks he's a highly suspicious character.
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She thinks Alexander is a highly suspicious character, although that wouldn't require any great acumen on anyone's part.
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All the members are highly suspicious .
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We don't know him, we don't trust him and we think he's a highly suspicious character.
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Volunteering a wager was unprecedented, therefore highly suspicious .
more
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But what made any one boat more suspicious than another?
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This tendency has the unfortunate consequence of making program administrators less open to evaluation and more suspicious of its value.
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If not, be even more suspicious .
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With a more interfering Prime Minister and a more suspicious Foreign Secretary it would not have been a happy arrangement.
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The difference theorists are more suspicious than their colleagues in the dominance current of traditional value-judgements about the way women talk.
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I removed the envelope and decided to dump the book which, empty, was probably even more suspicious .
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Hayling relayed the pressure back to the ever more suspicious comrades.
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She should have been more suspicious .
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But what I'd dearly love to know is what on earth made him so suspicious of me?
very
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Mr Jarvis had recommended me, but he was very suspicious at first.
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Louka is also plagued by the police who are very suspicious about his bogus marriage.
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Another interview revealed that ever since childhood she had been very suspicious of strangers.
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Check this out. Very suspicious .
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They were a very suspicious family.
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We should also be very suspicious of any codification project which attempts to pre-empt or disguise the irreducibly dispositive element in decision-making.
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The way Tony DeFries went at it made me very suspicious .
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But it should make us very suspicious .
■ NOUN
activity
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But everyone is advised to remain on their guard and keep vigilant for any suspicious activity .
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Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
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Sometimes, traders on the stock-exchange floors will report suspicious activity .
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Newspapers admonished citizens to report any suspicious activity , encouraging them to spy on each other.
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Constantly observe spectators for suspicious activity .
character
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She thinks he's a highly suspicious character .
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She thinks Alexander is a highly suspicious character , although that wouldn't require any great acumen on anyone's part.
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We don't know him, we don't trust him and we think he's a highly suspicious character .
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We had a couple of suspicious characters but their alibis are watertight.
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Her murdered sister's widower, who, being an estate agent, is clearly a suspicious character .
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Why, if either Black or his friends were suspicious characters , would they first contact the police?
circumstances
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Police say there are no suspicious circumstances and a coroner has been informed.
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A hose pipe was connected to the exhaust. police said there were no suspicious circumstances .
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There were no suspicious circumstances and a postmortem was due to be carried out later.
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Police said cause had not been established but there were not thought to have been suspicious circumstances .
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Apart from anything else, if there were suspicious circumstances , the doctor wouldn't have signed a certificate.
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Voice over A postmortem has revealed the man died from natural causes, there are no suspicious circumstances .
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Police said there were no suspicious circumstances .
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Furthermore, people are more likely to report suspicious circumstances surrounding an individual who appears to be of lower-class origin.
look
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She threw him a suspicious look .
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The gaunt, grey-haired sergeant fixes me with a studiously suspicious look and takes a note of my name and the time.
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Husband came back, also distributing suspicious looks , and sat down.
mind
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Those with suspicious minds may wonder why such sweeping action has been taken.
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You have a suspicious mind , Michael Riven, but my own goes along with it.
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The newspaper argued that the ordinary reader, possessed of a fairer and less suspicious mind , would presume innocence.
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It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders.
package
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Investigators responded to the two locations after they received calls of suspicious packages in the mail.
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Washington area police also responded to dozens of calls for suspicious packages , all of which turned out to be false alarms.
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Helicopters will fly overhead, and police robots will be available to handle suspicious packages that might contain explosives.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have a right to be angry/concerned/suspicious etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A full murder inquiry was launched after the company chairman died in suspicious circumstances.
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Butler has been involved in several suspicious business deals.
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He glanced around, satisfied that nobody was taking any notice of his suspicious behaviour, then opened the door.
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His employer became suspicious about the amount of money he was claiming for expenses.
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I started to get suspicious when I found a hotel bill in Sarah's pocket.
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It all seems very suspicious to me. Where did he get all that money from?
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The circumstances surrounding McBain's death are suspicious .
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The local people were suspicious of me because of my somewhat unusual lifestyle.
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The officials we met in the capital looked suspicious and tense, as if they were expecting us to declare war on them.
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The police were suspicious of Simpson because his story did not quite make sense.
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The public have been asked to report anything suspicious at once.
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The tone of Danny's voice made Nancy suspicious .
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There was a suspicious -looking man standing in a doorway across the street.
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There was a suspicious silence as I opened the door.
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We thought his behaviour was suspicious and called the police immediately.
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You have a very suspicious mind, Mary. No, I had nothing to do with this.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I also had a suspicious , ungenerous feeling about the reluctance of the white teachers to make use of more realistic books.
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She's deeply suspicious of the circumstances.
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She should have been more suspicious .
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The bruises join a growing list of suspicious marks found on Katelyn in the final 15 weeks of her life.
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We hide behind our men, peeping at each other in a curious and suspicious fashion.
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What had become of the suspicious anti-warrior of the sixties, casting reproachful glances at the Temple University computer center?