Definition of suspect

"suspect" in the noun sense

1. suspect

someone who is under suspicion

2. defendant, suspect

a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law the person being sued or accused

"suspect" in the verb sense

1. suspect, surmise

imagine to be the case or true or probable

"I suspect he is a fugitive"

"I surmised that the butler did it"

2. distrust, mistrust, suspect

regard as untrustworthy regard with suspicion have no faith or confidence in

3. suspect

hold in suspicion believe to be guilty

"The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"

"suspect" in the adjective sense

1. fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious

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"

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Quotations for suspect

Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view. [ Gay ]

They that know no evil will suspect none. [ Ben Jonson ]

Whoso does no evil, is apt to suspect none. [ Proverb ]

Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings.
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things. [ Wm. Blake ]

To suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived by him. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

One is quick to suspect where one has suffered harm before. [ Publius Syrus ]

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. [ Tac ]

Call your husband cuckold in jest, and he'll never suspect you. [ Proverb ]

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. [ Rojas ]

If you suspect a man, don't employ him; if you employ him, don't suspect him. [ George Horace Lorimer ]

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. [ Hitopadesa ]

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance. [ Saadi ]

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

True dignity abides with him alone who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect and still revere himself in lowliness of heart. [ Wordsworth ]

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds: prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others. [ Bruyere ]

When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others. [ Colton ]

It has been shrewdly said, that when men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do. [ Colton ]

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature. [ Pascal ]

Cheeriness is a thing to be more profoundly grateful for than all that genius ever inspired or talent ever accomplished. Next best to natural, spontaneous cheeriness is deliberate, intended and persistent cheeriness, which we can create, can cultivate and can so foster and cherish that after a few years the world will never suspect that it was not an hereditary gift. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]

suspect in Scrabble®

The word suspect is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters suspect:

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suspect in Words With Friends™

The word suspect is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters suspect:

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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