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SUSPICIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suspiciously mean? 

SUSPICIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb SUSPICIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. with suspicionplay

  Familiarity information: SUSPICIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUSPICIOUSLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

With suspicion

Context example:

she regarded the food suspiciously

Pertainym:

suspicious (openly distrustful and unwilling to confide)


 Context examples 


He sprang away from it, and from a distance studied it suspiciously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Suspiciously, I looked all round, but could see no key of any kind.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The three men in it gazed at us suspiciously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He looked suspiciously at us now out of yellow-shot, bilious eyes, and, without speaking or rising, he waved towards two chairs.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was disgustingly, was suspiciously reserved.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A policeman on a street corner eyed him suspiciously, then noted his sailor roll.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I am vastly honoured, sir, said my father, looking suspiciously at his guest from under his shaggy eyebrows, for with that grave face and those twinkling eyes it was hard to know how to take him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She looked suspiciously at her sister; Maria's countenance was to decide it: if she were vexed and alarmed—but Maria looked all serenity and satisfaction, and Julia well knew that on this ground Maria could not be happy but at her expense.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They paused with instant alarm, and looked at each other suspiciously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Something suspiciously akin to moistness dimmed her beautiful eyes before she dropped them and partly turned away her head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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