Suspect

Definition: Suspect

Suspect

Adjective

1. (informal) 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".

Noun

1. Someone who is under suspicion.

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

Verb

1. Imagine to be true or to be the case; "I suspect that there is more to the story".

2. Imagine to be true; "I suspect he is a fugitive".

3. Regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in.

4. Hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty.

5. Suspect to be false; "I distrust that man".

6. Believe guilty.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "suspect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Suspect

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Unbelief Doubt

Doubtful; (uncertain); disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of belief; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable; impossible.

Doubt; be doubtful; (uncertain); doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to; Adjective: diffide; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts.

Crosswords: Suspect

French (doubtful, dubious, queer, suspect), Romanian (doubtful, doubtful person, dubious, equivocal, fishy, queer, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious, suspiciously).

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing in the horror section (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

I know a good deal more about you than you suspect. I know, for instance, that you're in love with a woman (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

So avoid eye contact, watch your pocketbook, and suspect everyone (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Would you be willing to beat a confession out of a suspect you knew to be guilty (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

It's my personal conviction that no one but an idiot would volunteer, and I shall strongly suspect the sanity of anyone who does (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley)

And I never did suspect a thing (Caught Up in You; performing artist: 38 Special)

The connection was the prime suspect (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire (references; author: unknown)

Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide (references; author: unknown)

The Suspect (1966)

Suspect (2002)

Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment (1996)

Matlock: The Suspect (1991)

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Books

• In Suspect Terrain (reference)

• Prime Suspect (reference)

• Prime Suspect 2 (reference)

• Prime Suspect 3 (reference)

• Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Suspect Chemicals Sourcebook (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Suspect (reference)

• Prime Suspect 3 (reference)

• Prime Suspect 5 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Born Suspect (reference)

• The Suspect (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Grouper coming up during ciguatera studies. Grouper are suspect species in these islands for carrying toxin. Credit: Small World.

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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness

But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel

Sorry I am my noble cousin should Suspect me that I mean no good to him.

Moreover, the waves, I suspect, do not so much construct as wear down a material which has already acquired consistency

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Health

Glaucoma, glaucoma suspect, or ocular hypertension. (references)

If you suspect that you are having a side effect, alert your physician. (references)

Some parents may suspect that their child already has a drinking problem. (references)

Business

In December 1996, four policemen received sentences of up to 11 years for torturing a suspect to death. (references)

While it is clearly true that most construction laborers operate in at least a "grey" market, the claim that steel framing companies do not is suspect. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

Many observers suspect government involvement. (references)

Colombia

A third suspect was charged but died before the trial. (references)

Philippines

Police reportedly had identified a suspect but no arrest had been made by year's end. (references)

Discrimination

Brazil

In February a court sentenced two alleged gang members to 21 years in prison, while a third suspect received a lighter sentence. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Also, some Pakistanis suspect Iranian support for the sectarian violence which has plagued Pakistan. (references)

South Korea

During the May 1999 visit to the suspect underground construction site, the U.S. team found a large, empty underground tunnel complex. (references)

Human Rights

Germany

A fifth suspect was acquitted for lack of evidence. (references)

Colombia

A civilian suspect also was awaiting trial at year's end. (references)

Albania

Alternatively a suspect may be placed under house arrest. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

Because one of the men spoke only Kekchi, and the Public Ministry in Zacapa had no interpreter available; the judge allowed one suspect to translate for another. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

The third suspect failed to appear for the retrial. (references)

Russia

In November Moscow police arrested a 16-year-old suspect on charges of killing Mayoni. (references)

Political Economy

Haiti

FL Senator and president of the Senate Commission on Public Security Dany Toussaint is a suspect in the Dominique murder. (references)

Sudan

The Government continued to dismiss summarily military personnel as well as civilian government employees whose loyalty it considered suspect. (references)

Political Rights

Swaziland

For example, chiefs have their own community police who may arrest a suspect and bring the suspect before an inner council within the chiefdom for a trial. (references)

Trade

Armenia

Customs has the legal power to inspect and seize suspect transit shipments. (references)

Egypt

In cases where customs officials suspect under-invoicing, they usually add from 10 to 30% to the invoice value of imports for customs valuation purposes. (references)

Oman

The Ministry of Information delays or bars the entry of magazines and newspaper editions if it takes exception to a story on Oman or deems the content morally suspect. (references)

Women

Dominican Republic

The State can prosecute a suspect for rape even if the victim does not file charges. (references)

Ghana

On May 8, a suspect who police had arrested in February, confessed to eight of the murders. (references)

Ghana

In October the Office of the Attorney General directed that the suspect be charged with murder. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Some academics suspect that coal mines, which often operate far from urban centers and out of the purview of law enforcement officials, also occasionally employ children. (references)

Kazakhstan

Many trafficking victims appear to be aware or at least to suspect that they are going to work as prostitutes, but not that they will be working under slavery-like conditions. (references)

Albania

Parliament members attempted to impeach three members of the Supreme Court over their conduct in a high-profile case of trafficking in persons, which allowed a suspect to get out on bail and flee the country; however, the impeachment failed, in part due to lack of adequate evidence and proper investigation by prosecutors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "suspect": murder suspect ♦ rape suspect ♦ robbery suspect ♦ suspect smb.'s honesty. Additional references.

Beginning with "suspect": suspect-list.

Ending with "suspect": names-suspect.

Albanian

i dyshimtë (dingy, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, left handed, misgiving, moot, precarious, problematic, queer, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, wildcat), dyshoj (call in question, dilly dally, disbelieve, distrust, doubt, misdoubt, question, smell a rat). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشتبه فيه, ‏مشبوه (doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, suspected, suspicious, under suspicion), ‏توهم (fancy), ‏المشبوه, ‏إرتاب (distrust, doubt, mistrust), ‏إشتبه (scent), ‏ظن (calculate, fancy, guess, imagine, misgiving, reckon, suppose, supposition, surmise, think). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съмнявам се в (discredit, mistrust), съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), заподозряно лице, заподозрян (under a cloud), предполагам (assume, believe, conjecture, divine, expect, guess, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween), подозрителен човек (rum customer, shady customer), подозрителен (distrustful, doubtful, equivocal, jealous, leery, mistrustful, queer, suspicious), подозирам (be suspicious, doubt, misdoubt, mistrust, surmise, sus). (various references)

Chinese 

猜想 (guess, suppose), 涉嫌人 , 嫌疑犯. (various references)

Czech

tušit (conjecture, forebode, presage, sense, smell, surmise), podezřelý (fishy, phoney, phony, queer, shady, suspicious), podezírat (discredit), pochybný (devious, disreputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, murky, problematical, questionable, seamy, seedy, shady, specious, unsavory), nedùvìřovat (distrust, doubt, mistrust), bát se (be afraid, fear, worry). (various references)

Danish

mulig vaert, mistro (distrust, suspicion). (various references)

Dutch

verdenken. (various references)

Esperanto

suspekti. (various references)

Farsi 

موردشک , مظنون بودن (Suspicion), مظنون (Defiant), گمان کردن (Reckon, Suppose, Think), ظنین بودن از, شک داشتن (Doubt), بدگمان شدن از. (various references)

Finnish

epäillä (be suspicious of, distrust, doubt, hesitate). (various references)

French

suspecter, soupçonner. (various references)

Frisian

fertinke. (various references)

German

verdächtigen (to suspect), fehlerverdächtig, argwöhnen. (various references)

Greek 

υποπτεύομαι (misdoubt, smell a rat). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפוקפק (apocryphal, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, moot, questionable, suspicious, uncertain, unfounded), לפקפק (doubt, falter, hesitate, query, vacillate, waver, wobble), לחשו�" (distrust, scent), ל�"חשי�" (arouse suspicious), ל�"טיל ספק (doubt, misbelieve, misgive, question), חשו�" (suspicious), חש�" (hunch, odour, suspicion). (various references)

Hungarian

gyanúsított (prisoner at the bar), gyanús (bung, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, liable to suspicion, queer, shady, suspicion, suspicious, to give rise to suspicion). (various references)

Icelandic

vantreysta (distrust). (various references)

Indonesian

mengagak-agak (consider, guess correctly), mencurigai (distrust). (various references)

Italian

sospettare (distrust, to suspect). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

容疑者 , 容疑 (charge), 嫌疑者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ようぎしゃ, ようぎ (behavior, charge, deportment, essence), け�"ぎしゃ (a proposer). (various references)

Korean 

용의자. (various references)

Manx

ouyrys, fo ouyrys (suspected). (various references)

Norwegian

mistro (disbelieve, distrust, suspicion). (various references)

Papiamen

sospechá, deskonfiá (distrust). (various references)

Pig Latin

uspectsay.(various references)

Portuguese

suspeito (doubtful, equivocal, fishy, queer, questionable, shady, spotted, suspicious). (various references)

Romanian

suspecta (impeach, impugn, mistrust), suspect (doubtful, doubtful person, dubious, equivocal, fishy, queer, questionable, shady, suspicious, suspiciously), se îndoi (be doubtful of, bend, cast doubts on smth., crook, discredit, distrust, double up, doubt, get out of true, give, hook on, pucker, query, question, sag, spring, stand in doubt, verge, yield), presupune (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, fancy oneself, feel, imagine, imply, infer, presume, suppose, surmise), persoanã suspectã, ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, link, loop, mesh, optic, orb, peeper, pink, pip, ring, scan, sight, stitch, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex), bãnuit (suspicious), bãnui (anticipate, conjecture, distrust, doubt, feel, foreknow, foresee, guess, imagine, mistrust, presume, smoke, sniff, suppose, surmise, think), adulmeca (feel, foreknow, foresee, get on the scent, guess, nose, pick up the scent, scent, sense, smell, smell out, smoke, sniff, trace). (various references)

Russian 

подозревать (have a hunch, misdoubt, smell a rat, surmise, suss), подозрительный (distrustful, leery, queer, questionable, screwy, suspicious, umbrageous, wary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sumnjiv (doubtful, fishy, questionable, shady, suspicious), sumnjičiti, sumnjati (distrust, doubt, mistrust), slutiti (bode, misgive, presage, take a notion), pretpostaviti (assume, connote, hypothesize, presuppose, suppose, surmise, trow), podozriv (rat), osumnjičena osoba. (various references)

Spanish

sospechar (to suspect). (various references)

Swedish

misstänka (imagine, scent). (various references)

Thai

น่าสงสัย (doubting, fishy, queer, ropey, sceptical, shady, suspicious), ผู้ต้องสงสัย, สงสัย (doubt, doubtful, dubious), คา�"ว่าจริง. (various references)

Turkish

sanık (accused, culprit, defence, defendant, defense, prisoner at the bar, respondent), zanlı (culprit, defendant), kuşkulu (creaky, debatable, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, hesitant, indecisive, jaundiced, questionable, suspicious), kuşkulanmak (be doubtful, disbelieve, doubt, fear, feel suspicious, impugn, query, question, smell a rat, surmise), hakkında kötü düşünmek (think ill of smb.), güvenmemek (disbelieve, discredit, distrust, doubt, have a distrust of smb., mistrust, not to rely on, not to trust), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing), şüphelenmek (be doubtful of, be in doubt about, impeach), şüphe etmek (be sceptical about, be sceptical of, be skeptical about, be skeptical of, dispute, doubt, have a suspicion that, impugn, misdoubt, mistrust, question). (various references)

Turkmen 

юьbhelenmek (doubt). (various references)

Ukrainian

вважати (account, allot, allow, assume, believe, calculate, conceive, consider, count, deem, opine, posit, rate, repute, set down, think), підозрювати (mistrust), підозріла людина, підозрілий (doubtful, dubious, leery, mistrustful, questionable, rum, rummy, screwy, suspicious, wary), передчувати (anticipate, apprehend, bode, forebode, foreshadow, foretaste, hope, presage). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người khả nghi, người bị tình nghi, khả nghi; bị tình nghi, đáng ngờ (apocryphal, contestable, implausible, questionable, suspicious). (various references)

Welsh

drwgdybio, amau (dispute, doubt). (various references)

insuspicabilia, insuspicabilis, suspectus, suspicabantur, suspicabar, suspicabatur, suspicaberis, suspicamini, suspicati, suspicatus, suspicetur. (various references)

suspect. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "suspect": suspected, suspecting, suspects. (additional references)

Words containing "suspect": unsuspected, unsuspecting, unsuspectingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Suspect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: suscept, suspe, suspent, Syseca. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cestus, scutes, setups, stupes, upsets.

-2 letters: cusps, cutes, pests, puces, puses, scups, scute, scuts, sects, septs, setup, specs, spues, steps, stupe, suets, supes, upset.

-3 letters: ceps, cess, cues, cups, cusp, cuss, cute, cuts, ecus, pecs, pest, pets, psst, puce, puss, puts, scup, scut, secs, sect, sept, sets, spec, spue, step, sues, suet, supe.

+1 letter: putsches, sprucest, suspects.

+2 letters: cutpurses, octopuses, piecrusts, resculpts, spacesuit, spectrums, spruciest, suspected.

+3 letters: conspectus, persecutes, prosecutes, prospectus, quicksteps, scriptures, sculptress, sculptures, spacesuits, speculates, superscout, superstock, susceptive, suspecting.

+4 letters: conceptuses, corruptness, leucoplasts, miscomputes, pasticheurs, pedicurists, persecutees, persecutors, prosecutors, putrescines, speculators, subchapters, subprojects, supercities, superscouts, superscript, supersecret, superstocks, supertonics, supplicates, supremacist, susceptible, susceptibly, unsuspected.

+5 letters: captiousness, computereses, computerises, computerists, computerless, conspectuses, consumptives, counterposes, counterspies, countersteps, encapsulates, eucalyptuses, intussuscept, lectureships, multispecies, persecutions, portcullises, postconquest, postulancies, prosecutions, prospectuses, putrescences, sculptresses, spectaculars, speculations, subpotencies, subspecialty, superbitches, supercenters, supercluster, superinfects, superplastic, superscripts, supersecrets, supremacists, susceptivity, unsuspecting.