Word Meaning

suspects definition and meaning

a. Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
a. Suspected; distrusted.
a. Suspicion.
a. One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
v. t. To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
v. t. To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
v. t. To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
v. t. To look up to; to respect.
v. i. To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

Crossword clues for suspects

- Consider likely
- Consider questionable
- Distrust the accused
- Dodgy
- Doubt
- Doubt innocence of defendant
- Dubious
- Have a hunch
- Have doubts about
- Have little faith in
- Have qualms concerning
- Imagine guilty
- Likely criminal
- Mistrust
- Person under suspicion
- Questionable
- To consider likely
- To distrust
- Considers likely
- Distrusts
- Doubts
- Has doubts about
- Has doubts about blamelessness of defendants
- Has misgivings about
- Persons of interest (to the police)
- Possible culprits
- Thinks the worst of
- Those likely to be involved as usual?