suspect
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suspect
▶verb /səˈspɛkt/
- 1 believe (something) to be probable or possible.
■ believe (someone) to be guilty of a crime or offence, without certain proof.
- 2 doubt the genuineness or truth of.
– origin ME: from L. suspectus, suspicere ‘mistrust’, from sub- ‘from below’ + specere ‘to look’.
'suspect' also found in these Oxford entries:
dubious
- goings-on
- hinky
- identity parade
- pre-release
- questionable
- rendition
- sentence adverb
- shonky
- smell
- suss
- verbal
