suspect
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speciō (“watch, look at”).
Inflected forms:
form: suspects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suspecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suspected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suspected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: suspects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more suspect
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suspect
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to suspect the presence of disease
From her hand I could suspect no ill.
Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
gloss: To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to suspect the truth of a story
An inhabitant of Gubio, in the duchy of Urbino, in Italy, suspecting the fidelity of his wife, he, in a fit of jealousy, in order to find out whether his suspicion was true, did what the ecclesiastick history informs us Origen did from devotion.
gloss: To believe (someone) to be guilty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I suspect him of being the thief.
gloss: To have suspicion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To look up to; to respect.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
pos: noun
examples: 1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch
Round up the usual suspects.
gloss: Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
pos: adj
examples: What I can do or offer is suspect.
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
Facing a backlash over the use of the term “cosmopolitan,” [Josh] Hawley later defended himself against accusations of antisemitism on Twitter as “an ardent advocate of the state of Israel and the Jewish people.” But this conflation of the state of Israel and the Jewish people is the entire point. To today’s far right, Israel is a firm ally against Islam, while “cosmopolitans,” many of whom just happen to be Jewish, are suspect.
What appears suspect about the Beeching Report is how quickly it was railroaded through, with the answers manufactured before the questions were asked.
gloss: Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
examples: Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.
Related words: suspicion
suspicious
Derived words: missuspect
suspectable
suspected
suspectful
suspecting
suspective
suspector
nonsuspect
suspectly
suspectness
unsuspect
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