Vocabulary
Suspicious
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something.
Urdu meaning
بدمزہ ناپسندیدہ ناگوار تلخ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Profiling noncustoms paid vehicles and linking data with CNICs and biometric systems will help track suspicious activity.
- The West, primarily the US and its European/Nato allies, are highly suspicious of groupings such as the SCO and BRICS, mainly because they challenge their entrenched hegemony on world affairs.
- That too, based on questionable evidence and suspicious testimonies given by police personnel who claimed to have infiltrated a closed-door political meeting without being detected by a single soul.
- To the suspicious mind, the sluggish pace of deliberations suggests that the tribunals were created merely to fulfil a formality and provide cover to the status quo.
- Their job is to regulate transplants, yet donors, and investigate suspicious activity.
Synonyms
doubtful, unsure, dubious, wary, chary, sceptical, distrustful, mistrustful, disbelieving
Antonyms
trustful, trusting
Curator example
“he was suspicious of her motives”
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