Vocabulary
Suspicion
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true.
Urdu meaning
شک، اندیشہ، بدگمانی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Where trusted voices were absent, social-media agitators filled the void, fuelling suspicion.
- Such a measure also risks silencing those who might otherwise come forward to seek information about their missing relatives, fearing that doing so will invite state reprisal or suspicion.
- `True leadership lies not in managing compliance but in ensuring that the court rises above suspicion as the fearless guardian of the Constitution.
- Families who see little evidence of schools, clinics, clean water or sanitation in their daily lives view vaccination drives with suspicion.
- President Kennedy attracted Israeli suspicion for even more reasons.
Synonyms
intuition, feeling, impression, inkling, surmise, guess, conjecture, speculation
Curator example
“she had a sneaking suspicion that he was laughing at her”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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