suspect
Verb:
- To believe something is possible or likely, especially something bad or wrong: To have an idea or impression about the existence or truth of something without certain proof.
- To doubt or distrust: To regard something as unreliable or questionable.
Noun:
- A person believed to be guilty of a crime or offense: Someone who is under investigation or thought to have committed a specific act.
- A person or entity accused in a legal proceeding: In law, the party against whom an action is brought.
Adjective:
- Not to be trusted or relied upon; possibly dangerous or false: Describing something or someone that causes feelings of doubt or mistrust.
Verb:
- I suspect he is not telling the whole truth.
- The detective suspected foul play from the beginning.
- Do you suspect the authenticity of this document?
Noun:
- The police have detained three suspects in connection with the robbery.
- The main suspect in the case fled the country.
Adjective:
- The package was left in a suspect location.
- His motives for helping seem suspect.
"To be suspected of (something)": To be thought to be guilty of or involved in a particular act.
- He was suspected of leaking confidential information.
"A prime suspect": The person considered most likely to be guilty.
- After the new evidence was found, she became the prime suspect.
"Suspect classification" (Legal term): In constitutional law, a class of persons subjected to potentially discriminatory laws, triggering strict judicial scrutiny.
Suspicion (n): A feeling or thought that something may be true or the case, especially something wrong.
- She had a suspicion that she was being followed.
Suspicious (adj.): Having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something; causing one to have the idea or impression that something is wrong.
- The man was acting in a suspicious manner.
Unsuspected (adj.): Not known or thought to exist or be present; not suspected.
- The drug had unsuspected side effects.
- Verb: Doubt, distrust, mistrust, conjecture, surmise.
- Noun: Accused, defendant, person of interest.
- Adjective: Dubious, questionable, fishy, shady.
- Suspect someone of something: To believe someone may be guilty of a specific act.
- They suspect him of theft.
"Above suspicion": So trustworthy or innocent that no one would suspect them of wrongdoing.
- As a judge, she must be a person above suspicion.
"A suspect package": A parcel or item that is believed might contain something dangerous, like an explosive.
- The station was evacuated due to a suspect package.
- not as expected
- there was something fishy about the accident
- up to some funny business
- some definitely queer goings-on
- a shady deal
- her motives were suspect
- suspicious behavior
- a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
- someone who is under suspicion
- hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty
- The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks
- regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
- imagine to be the case or true or probable
- I suspect he is a fugitive
- I surmised that the butler did it