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Definition: Suspicion |
SuspicionNoun1. An impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong". 2. Doubt about someone's honesty. 3. The state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion". 4. Being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suspicion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Suspicion (1941) is a feature film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It is based on Englishman Francis Iles's 1932 novel Before the Fact. Suspicion is one of the famous examples where, in the process of rewriting the novel for the big screen, the plot was tampered with to an extent that Iles´s original intention was completely reversed. As William L. De Andrea states in his Encyclopedia Mysteriosa (1994), Suspicion "was supposed to be the study of a murder as seen through the eyes of the eventual victim. However, because Cary Grant was to be the killer and Joan Fontaine the killee, the studio - RKO - decreed a different ending, which Hitchcock supplied and then spent the rest of his life complaining about."During the 1930s, soon after the advent of the talkies, sunny-boy Cary Grant acquired the screen image of the perfect young gentleman, the kind of cheerful young man every mother in her right mind would want as her son-in-law. By 1940 Grant had starred in so many light-hearted romantic films as well as screwball comedies that casting him as a scheming murderer seemed risky from the start. As far as the literary basis of the film is concerned, Iles's novel is experimental in that it is \not a whodunit: It does not take long to determine the identity of the villain and his motives. According to Colin Dexter, Before the Fact is a "crime novel" rather than a "detective novel", Iles being "the father of the psychological suspense novel as we know it today". It is true that the police do not play any role in the book; none of the characters is ever charged with a crime, let alone indicted or convicted of one.
The novel: Outline of the plot
Before the Fact is the story of Lina, a "born victim". She is raised in the country in the early decades of the 20th century and, at 28, she is still a virgin and in danger of becoming an old spinster. She finds country life with her parents rather boring, and only lives for strangers that might be passing through or that have been invited by someone living in or near their village. When the novel opens, such a stranger has just arrived: 27 year-old Johnnie Aysgarth, from an impoverished family who are, as she is told, "of rotten stock". General McLaidlaw, Lina´s father, is opposed to the marriage, and everyone seems to know that all that Johnnie is after is Lina's money, Lina herself having been told from an early age on that Joyce, her younger sister, has got all the looks and that she, Lina, has got the brains.
Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers
In spite of these difficulties, Lina and Johnnie get married after only a short engagement. They go to Paris on their honeymoon where they stay at the best hotels and dine at the best restaurants, and, on their return to England, move into an eight-bedroom house in London. Only six weeks later, Johnnie, who has not got a job but whom Lina expects to have a regular income anyway, admits to his wife that they have been living on borrowed money and that there is none left any longer. Gradually, though unwillingly, Lina takes over the responsibility for the couple's finances and suggests to Johnnie that he should get a regular job. Also, they leave the expensive house and move to the country; they settle down in a part of Dorset where they do not know anybody and start living in a more modest house. For the time being, they both rely entirely on Lina's allowance. Reluctantly, Johnnie agrees to take a job: He becomes the steward of a large estate a Captain Melbeck has come into. Lina would always have liked to have children, but, as it turns out, she never gets pregnant.
As time goes by, Lina realizes - gradually and unwillingly - that Johnnie is a crook. Apart from being a compulsive liar, he by and by turns out to be
- a thief: For example, during a tennis party he steals an expensive diamond belonging to one of the guests and, soon afterwards, a piece of Lina´s jewelry. Also, he removes Lina's four Hepplewhite chairs and sells them to an antique shop in Bournemouth.
- a forger: He forges Lina's signature to be able to cash one of her cheques.
- an embezzler: He embezzles Captain Melbeck's money to be able to pay his gambling debts. Luckily, Melbeck says he is not going to prosecute.
- an adulterer: During his marriage he has affairs with a lot of women and village girls including Lina's best friend, Janet Caldwell - he has rented a flat in Bournemouth especially for that purpose -, and Ella, their parlour maid, by whom he even has a son.
- eventually, a murderer: He incites General McLaidlaw to do a trick involving chairs while he and Lina are staying with the General for Christmas. This is too much physical exercise for the General, and he dies a sudden death. Some years later, Johnnie sees no other way of cheating a rich school friend of his, Beaky Thwaite, out of his money than to travel incognito to Paris with him, go to a brothel there and have him drink a whole beaker of brandy in one gulp so that he drops dead.
However, Lina's own death will be Johnnie's first "real" murder. He goes to great lengths to conceive of a new method of murder that cannot be detected. When Isobel Sedbusk, the author of detective stories, happens to spend the summer months in their village, he associates with her and, on the pretext of discussing material for her new book, elicits one new method of murder from her: swallowing an alkali commonly used but never suspected as having a poisonous effect on humans - an alkali which, on top of that, leaves no trace in the human body when a post-mortem is carried out. At the very end of the novel, Lina, who really seems to have gone mad, catches flu. She has been waiting for her husband to try out that new method of murder on her for months now. When he brings her a drink to her bedside she swallows it deliberately, knowing that she is drinking a poisonous cocktail. Again Johnny is going to get away with it ("People did die of influenza."), and this is really what Lina, so much in love with her husband, hopes will happen.The novel covers a period of approximately ten years: Johnnie Aysgarth's courtship of, and marriage to, Lina McLaidlaw, the disintegration of their marital life and her imminent death - although the reader cannot be too sure that she is really going to die. The interesting device employed by the author is the use of an omniscient third person narrator. The whole story is told from Lina Aysgarth's point of view. We know everything she does and everything she thinks. On the other hand, we know practically nothing about the villain except for what Lina sees and gathers. That way a lot of suspense is created.
The Hitchcock movie
In places, the screenplay of Suspicion faithfully follows the plot of the novel. There are, however, a number of major differences between the novel and its film version. For example, all references to Johnnie Aysgarth's infidelity were removed. True, in the first days of Johnnie's "courtship", while the couple are driving through the countryside in Lina's car ("Have you ever been kissed in a car?"), she asks him how many women he has had. Johnnie gives a humorous rather than a really evasive answer: He says that once, when he could not go to sleep, he started counting them, just like sheep jumping over a hedge, and he fell asleep at number 73. However, this, even back in the early 1940s, was accepted, or at least tolerated, male behaviour, especially of a man who was considered a playboy. Much is left open for the cinema-goer to decide: Did he actually sleep with any, some, or all of them? Or did he only kiss them? The crime of adultery, on the other hand, is altogether left out in the plot of the film: Lina's best friend does not appear at all, and Ella, their maid, certainly does not have an illegitimate son by Johnnie: Sex is not an issue.
In both the novel and the film version, General McLaidlaw opposes his daughter's marriage to Johnnie Aysgarth. In the book as well as the movie, Johnnie freely admits that he would not mind the General's death because he expects Lina to inherit quite a substantial fortune from her father, which would solve their (i e his) financial problems. The book, however, is much more sinister, with Johnnie egging on the General to physically exert himself to a point where he collapses and dies. In the film, General McLaidlaw's death is only reported, and Johnnie is not involved in any way in his death. Again, Johnnie's criminal record remains incomplete.
There are several scenes in the film which create suspense and in which the viewer is left in doubt as to Johnnie's intentions. In one of them, at the end of the film, Johnnie is driving his wife at breakneck speed to her mother's. Suddenly, the door of their car is open, and Lina is in danger of falling out and down the cliffs. For some seconds, the viewer must think that Johnnie is trying to throw her out. Immediately afterwards it turns out that he actually saved her life, that he just tried to close the door (which opened all by itself, or what? Why on earth didn't he stop the car instead? Why was he driving so fast in the first place?). This scene, which takes place after her (final) illness, does not exist in the book.
And of course the ending itself is different: In Iles's novel, Johnnie serves his sick wife a drink which she knows is poisoned. Nevertheless she gulps it down. In the film, it can be seen untouched on the following morning. Instead, she expresses the wish to go back to her mother's. Johnnie insists on driving her. The highly unbelievable scene on the cliff road follows. When the car has finally come to a standstill, Johnnie can persuade Lina to come home again: The final image, without words, is their car making a complete turn. What remains is Lina's (and the viewer's) constant fear that Johnnie might be a killer.In fact, Hitchcock was quoted as saying that he was forced to alter the ending of the movie. He wanted an ending similar to the climax of the novel, but the studio, more concerned with Cary Grant's "heroic" image, insisted that the ending be changed to what is seen in the film today.
As far as film language is concerned, a musical leitmotif is introduced in Suspicion. Whenever Lina is happy with Johnny - starting with a ball organised by General McLaidlaw - , we hear Johann Strauß´s waltz "Wiener Blut" in its original, light-hearted version. At one point, when she is suspicious of her husband, we hear a threatening, low-key version of the waltz, metamorphosing into the full and happy version after the suspense has been lifted. At another, Johnny is whistling the waltz. At yet another, while Johnny is serving the - obviously poisoned - drink of milk, a sad version of "Wiener Blut" is played again.
A visual threat - something that could not be done on the printed page either - is inserted when Lina suspects her husband of preparing to kill Beaky Thwaite: On the night before, at the Aysgarths' home, they play anagrams, and suddenly Beaky has the word 'Murder' on the table in front of him. Seeing the word, Lina imagines the cliffs Johnny and Beaky told her they would be going to on the next morning, and faints elegantly.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Suspicion (movie)."
Synonyms: SuspicionSynonyms: distrust (n), hunch (n), intuition (n), misgiving (n), mistrust (n), suspiciousness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accusation | Accused;Verb: suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance; in custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention. |
Belief | Confiding, suspectless; unsuspecting, unsuspicious; void of suspicion; credulous; wedded to. |
Fear | Noun: fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness; Adjective: solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze; mistrust; (doubt); suspicion, qualm; hesitation; (irresolution). |
Hope | Unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair; |
Incredulity | Suspiciousness; Adjective: scrupulosity; suspicion; (unbelief). |
Innocence | Inculpable, unculpable; unblamed, unblamable; blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable; venial. |
Jealousy | Noun: jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious suspicion, suspicion; " green-eyed monster "; yellows; Juno. |
Knowledge | Light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression; (idea); discovery; a. |
Supposition | Conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot, shot in the dark; conjecturality; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness). |
Unbelief Doubt | Throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge, dispute; deny; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize. |
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; (uncertainty); skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust, mistrust, cynicism; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi. | |
Zero | Adjective: not one, not a one, not any, nary a one;not a, never a; not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot; not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He believes the culprits might be the very people who, uh, soiled your rug, and you are in a unique position to confirm or disconfirm that suspicion. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) I've a strong suspicion we should have been rocket scientists, or Nobel Peace Prize winners or something (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) The nine-branched candelabra on your desk confirms my suspicion that you are of the Jewish faith; it is called a menorah, is it not (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer) You must understand that a blancmange impersonator and cannibal has to use some pretty clever stories to allay suspicion. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) Do we have to bring mistrust and suspicion into this (Lovejoy; writing credit: Jeremy Paul; Francis Megahy) | |
Lyrics | My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no proof (Don't Dream It's Over; performing artist: Crowded House) Would I still see suspicion in your eyes (Suspicious Minds; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Web of Suspicion (1959) Suspicion (1957) Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945) Shadow of Suspicion (1944) Above Suspicion (1943) | |
Song Titles | Suspicion (performing artist: Terry Stafford) | |
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 | Patrick Lyon, who suffered three months severe imprisonment on merely a vague suspicion for the internal robbery of the Bank of Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Winter pastimes. Disabusing your kids of any lurking suspicion that you are an old crab. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Unidentified man, arrested on suspicion of being a conspirator (has been erroneously taken for Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who had a bald forehead; but is probably Hartman Richter, Atzerodt's cousin, arrested with him but later release. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Patrick Lyon, who suffered three months severe imprisonment on merely a vague suspicion for the internal robbery of the Bank of Pennsylvania / 'grav'd by J[ames] Akin [Philadelphia]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "University of Tampa spire" by raznov Commentary: "Dusk shot of the spire at the University of Tampa. This was as close as I could get without arousing the suspicion of campus rent-a-cops." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francesco Petrarch | Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. |
Francis Bacon | Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. |
Hosea Ballou | Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. |
Nathalie Sarraute | Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. |
Robert Burns | Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. |
Samuel Johnson | Suspicion is most often useless pain. |
William Shakespeare | Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | He has not even a suspicion that the real point is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah--to "undo the heavy burdens [and] let the oppressed go free." And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She was not present when the suspicion first arose |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | A mystic shadow of suspicion immediately attached itself to the spot |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A marriage had just been made with a Sicilian princess for the Duke of Berry, who was already in reality regarded with suspicion by Louvel |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I have a strong suspicion, amounting almost to a conviction, that my sister intended to make pancakes today for the dinner of the Donovan family |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma looked at his white clothes and her face hardened with suspicion. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This often prompts suspicion of an inner ear problem. (references) | |
Toxins in foods have come under suspicion in a few cases of dementia. (references) | ||
This strange behavior should have led to a strong suspicion of rabies. (references) | ||
Children | Bangladesh | On May 27, police arrested 15 boys from the age of 10 to 12 under suspicion that they were planning "destructive and anti-social activities." The District Magistrate sentenced the boys to a 1-month detention under the Special Powers Act, then extended their sentence by 3 more months. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | Police detained 22 demonstrators on suspicion of illegal public assembly and damaging public property. (references) |
Laos | These returnees generally have been subject to more suspicion and scrutiny by the authorities than other citizens. (references) | |
Economic History | Pakistan | Since partition, relations between Pakistan and India have been characterized by rivalry and suspicion. (references) |
Sweden | With the end of the Cold War, that suspicion has lessened somewhat, although Sweden still chooses to remain nonaligned. (references) | |
Kuwait | In late 2000, a small group of Kuwaitis was arrested on suspicion of planning unspecified terrorist attacks in the region. (references) | |
Human Rights | Egypt | Abdel Hamid was arrested on March 8, 2000, on suspicion of arms dealing. (references) |
Laos | An estimated 100 to 200 persons are in detention for suspicion of violations of national security. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Al-Aqra' was detained on suspicion of collaboration with Israel approximately 1 month before his death. (references) | |
Minorities | Somalia | Non-Sunni Muslims often are viewed with suspicion by members of the Sunni majority. (references) |
Guinea | Mutual suspicion affects relations across ethnic lines, in and out of the Government. (references) | |
India | In June in Bhojpur, Bihar, four Dalits were attacked by an upper-caste mob on suspicion of stealing a rifle from a wealthy farmer of a higher caste. (references) | |
Political Economy | Egypt | Thousands of persons are detained without charge on suspicion of illegal terrorist or political activity; others are serving sentences after being convicted on similar charges. (references) |
Nepal | Public Security Regulations promulgated in June giving local authorities broader discretion in making arrests on the suspicion of terrorist activities were rescinded November 9. Following the November 26 state of emergency declaration, the King promulgated the Terrorist Ordinance of 2001 that defined a number of crimes, including taking up arms against the sovereignty and security of the country, as acts of terrorism. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ukraine | Very high voter turnouts, particularly in western districts, aroused suspicion of ballot stuffing on President Kuchma's behalf in the second round of voting. (references) |
Travel | Czech Rep | An attempt to take the city by storm with a flurry of quick meetings and barrage of e-mails is more likely to arouse suspicion than business. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Americans should maintain a low profile, vary travel routes and times for all required travel, and treat any mail from unfamiliar sources with suspicion. (references) | |
Women | Ghana | Three of the 20 murders reportedly involved husbands' suspicion of their wives' infidelity. (references) |
Worker Rights | Korea | In all of 2000, 585 persons were investigated on suspicion of smuggling of persons, with 103 arrested. (references) |
Kenya | In January authorities arrested and deported six Sudanese on suspicion of running an operation to smuggle Kenyans to the Middle East for work. (references) | |
China | While workers have little say in the choice of arbitrators and may look with suspicion on the local government role in the process, the majority of arbitration decisions have favored workers. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LL.D. Letters indicating the degree Legumptionorum Doctor, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly LL.d., and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. -- Damnator Diaboli. The new honor will be known as Sanctorum Custus, and written $$c. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I want the passenger seating graded by suspicion. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | The dangers to a continuation of this peace to-day are largely the fear and suspicion which still haunt the world. |
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| "Suspicion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Suspicion" is used about 1,614 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,614 | 5,145 |
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Expressions using "suspicion": a lurking suspicion ♦ a suspicion of a smile ♦ a suspicion of wine ♦ above suspicion ♦ be under suspicion ♦ beyond suspicion ♦ cast a suspicion on ♦ exempt from suspicion ♦ fall under suspicion ♦ free from suspicion ♦ have a suspicion that ♦ just suspicion ♦ liable to suspicion ♦ lie under a suspicion ♦ lie under suspicion ♦ make suspicion ♦ man compact of suspicion ♦ not a suspicion of ♦ on suspicion of murder ♦ sneaking suspicion ♦ suspicion of irregularity ♦ under suspicion ♦ unfounded suspicion ♦ void of suspicion ♦ with suspicion. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
suspicion | 27 |
under suspicion | 24 |
reasonable suspicion | 11 |
guilty by suspicion | 7 |
above suspicion | 5 |
1995 above suspicion | 3 |
reasonable supervisor suspicion training | 3 |
definition reasonable suspicion | 3 |
beyond suspicion | 3 |
lyrics suspicion | 2 |
reasonable suspicion drug testing | 2 |
by guilty review suspicion | 2 |
murder suspicion | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "suspicion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | argwaan, agterdog. (various references) | |
Albanian | mosbesim (disbelief, discredit, distrust, doubt, incredulity, misfaith, misgiving, mistrust, unbelief), grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, tittle, touch, whit), dyshim (distrust, doubt, dubiety, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, misgiving, qualm, query, suspiciousness), çikëz (pinpoint, rather, tiny bit). (various references) | |
Arabic | تهمة (accusation, blame, charge, frame, frame up, guilt, imputation, indictment), تحذر (prudence), عدم ثقة (disbelief, distrust, mistrust), المشكوك فيه, إرتياب (distrust, mistrust, suspiciousness, trepidation), إشتباه (suspiciousness), ريبة, شك ب, شك (discount, discredit, dispute, doubt, fall under suspicion, incertitude, inkling, misgiving, odor, odour, qualms, query, question, scepticism, scrupulosity, smell a rat, unbelief, uncertainty, wonder), شبهة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съмнение (challenge, discredit, doubt, question, scruple, uncertainty), нотка (flavour, note, tinge, touch), подозрение (distrust, mistrust, sus), подозрителност (jealousy, suspiciousness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 疑心 , 怀疑 (Disbelieve, Disbelieved, Disbelieving, Distrusted, Distrustful, Distrusting, Doubted, Doubting, sceptic, skeptic, skeptical, suspected, Suspecting), 懷疑 (doubt, to doubt, to suspect), 嫌疑 (suspected). (various references) | |
Czech | tušení (flair, guess, hunch, inkling, notion, presentiment, vibes), podezření, nedùvìra (distrust, mistrust, unbelief), náznak (evidence, hint, implication, inkling, insinuation, intimation, overtones, savor, smack, suggestion, trace, undertone). (various references) | |
Danish | mistro (distrust, suspect), mistanke. (various references) | |
Dutch | wantrouwen (distrust, suspect), verdenking, argwaan, achterdocht. (various references) | |
Esperanto | suspekto, malfido. (various references) | |
Faeroese | illgruni. (various references) | |
Farsi | مظنون بودن (Suspect), تردید (Doubt, Hang, Hesitancy, Indecision, Qualm, Query, Scruple, Skepticism, Uncertainty, Vibration), سوء ظن (Distrust), بدگمانی (Distrust, Misgiving, Mistrust). (various references) | |
Finnish | epäily (doubt, misgiving, scruple). (various references) | |
French | suspicion, soupçon. (various references) | |
Frisian | fertinking, erchtinken, erch. (various references) | |
German | Verdacht (hunch), Argwohn (distrustfulness, wariness), verdächtigung. (various references) | |
Greek | υπόνοια (implication), υποψία (mistrust). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמץ (grain, iota, jot, mite, modicum, morsel, odor, odour, particle, pinch, shade, shred, soupcon, sprinkling, syllable, tincture, trace, whit), חשד (hunch, odour, suspect), החשדות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sejtés (boding, conjecture, foreknowledge, guess, hunch, idea), gyanú (hunch, idea, inkling), vminek parányi nyoma, sejtelem (boding, inkling, presage, presentiment), parányi nyoma vminek, gyanítás (guess). (various references) | |
Icelandic | vantraust. (various references) | |
Indonesian | syak (distrust, doubt), persangkaan (estimate, expectation, presupposition), kecurigaan (distrust, mistrust), anggapan (assumption, belief, contention, impression, judgment, presumption, supposition). (various references) | |
Italian | sospetto (equivocal, questionable, suspect, suspected, suspicious). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不審 (distrust, doubt, incomplete understanding, infidelity, question, strangeness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎしん (apprehension, chivalrous spirit, doubt, empress dowager's home, fear, loyal retainer), ぎねん (doubt, misgivings, scruples), ぎわく (distrust, doubt, misgivings), さいぎしん (jealousy), さいぎ (jealousy, reconsideration, redeliberation, rites, ritual), うたがい (distrust, doubt, question, skepticism, uncertainty), うたぐり (distrust, doubt, question, skepticism, uncertainty), ふしん (building, center of buoyancy, construction, depression, discredit, disloyalty, distrust, doing everything one can, doubt, dullness, incomplete understanding, infidelity, insincerity, mistrust, perfidy, question, racking one's brains, slump, stagnation, strangeness, taking pains to, unfaithfulness), けんぎ (aversion, dislike, motion, prefectural assembly, proposal, proposition, suggestion). (various references) | |
Korean | 의혹 (Doubt). (various references) | |
Manx | ourys (agnosticism, distrust, doubt, doubtfulness, misgiving, scepticism, suspiciousness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | mistro (disbelieve, distrust, suspect). (various references) | |
Papiamen | sospecho, deskonfiansa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uspicionsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suspeita (distrust, doubt, inkling, mistrust, umbrage). (various references) | |
Romanian | suspiciune (doubt, mistrust, question), prezumţie (assumption, presumption), neînchipuit (distrust, mistrust), bãnuialã (anticipation, apprehension, conjecture, discredit, distrust, doubt, foresight, hunch, idea, inkling, jealousy, mistrust, presumption, supposition, surmise), bãnat (anger, annoyance, blame, sorrow, spite, trouble). (various references) | |
Russian | подозрение (mistrust). (various references) | |
Scottish | umhail (attention, consideration; doubt, heed), coicheid, arraidh, farraidh, amharus (doubt, mistake). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sumnja (doubt, mistrust, qualm, question, sneaking suspicion), podozrenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | sospecha (hunch, odor, odour), recelo (apprehension, fear, misgiving, mistrust, suspiciousness), recelocaz. (various references) | |
Swedish | misstanke, misstro (disbelief, discredit, distrust, mistrust, suspect, unbelief), aning (foreboding, ghost, idea, inkling, presage, scantling, shade, shadow, smattering, tot, touch, trace). (various references) | |
Thai | ร่องรอย (clue, sign, smack, strain, suggestion), ความคลางแคลงใจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | vehim (fantasy), kuşku (disbelief, distrust, doubt, fears, impeachment, misgiving, quandary, query, question, surmise, uneasiness), iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, hint, ichno-, impress, impression, inkling, odor, odour, print, scar, shades, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, taint, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, trail, vestige, weal, wheal), işkil, damla (bead, blob, drachm, dribblet, driblet, drop, drops, glob, minim), belli belirsiz şey, az miktar (dribblet, driblet, drop, few, fewness, inch, little, Mickle, modicum, shade, smallness, suggestion, tinge, trifle, twopence), şüphelenme, şüphe (disbelief, discredit, doubt, dubiousness, fears, haze, if, impeachment, incertitude, misdoubt, mistrust, query, question, surmise, uncertainty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | натяк (allusion, cue, hint, intimation, office, shadow, smell, suggestion, telltale, tip, whisper), підозра (distrust, misdoubt, mistrust). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nghi ngờ (distrust, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, dubitation, mistrustfulness), sự ngờ vực tí, sự ngờ, chút (jot, particle, shadow, smidgen). (various references) | |
Welsh | drwgdybiaeth. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | suspicio, suspicione, suspiciones. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | suspeçun, sospeçon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "suspicion": suspicioned, suspicioning, suspicions. (additional references) | |
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"Suspicion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: suspesion, suspicio, suspicsion, suspiscion, suspision, suspission, suspition. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "suspicion" (pronounced suspi"shun) |
| 4 | -i" sh u n | fission, academician, abolition, acquisition, addition, admission, admonition, ambition, ammunition, apparition, attrition, audition, clinician, coalition, cognition, commission, competition, composition, condition, contrition, decommission, decomposition, definition, demolition, dentition, deposition, dietitian, disposition, edition, electrician, emission, erudition, exhibition, expedition, exposition, extradition, fruition, geriatrician, ignition, imposition, inhibition, inquisition, intermission, intuition, juxtaposition, logician, magician, malnutrition, mathematician, mission, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, obstetrician, omission, opposition, optician, partition, patrician, pediatrician, permission, petition, physician, politician, position, precondition, predisposition, preignition, premonition, presupposition, prohibition, proposition, recognition, recondition, redefinition, reimposition, remission, rendition, repetition, reposition, requisition, retransmission, rhetorician, sedition, statistician, submission, superstition, supposition, tactician, technician, theoretician, titian, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition. |
| 3 | -sh u n | facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, abrogation, absolution, absorption, abstraction, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abomination, abortion, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, action, activation, adaptation, addiction, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoption, adoration, adulation, advection, advocation, affectation, affection, affiliation, affirmation, affliction, agglomeration, aggravation, aggression, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, auction, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carburetion, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, circumspection, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collection, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, compilation, completion, complexion, complication, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, conduction, confabulation, confection, confederation, confession, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, convection, convention, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crucifixion, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decompression, deconstruction, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, deduction, defamation, defection, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depletion, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, depression, deprivation, deregulation, dereliction, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, differentiation, diffraction, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, discoloration, disconnection, discontinuation, discretion, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinfection, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, education, egyptian, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erection, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, eviction, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expression, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extinction, extortion, extraction, extrapolation, fabrication, fixation, flexion, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fraction, fragmentation, freshen, friction, frustration, fumigation, function, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hessian, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, imperfection, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, impression, improvisation, imputation, inaction, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indiscretion, indoctrination, induction, industrialization, infarction, infatuation, infection, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, inflection, infliction, information, infraction, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, injection, injunction, innovation, inoculation, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspection, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instruction, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, insurrection, integration, intensification, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intersection, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, introduction, introspection, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, junction, jurisdiction, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liposuction, liquefaction, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, lotion, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malfunction, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misimpression, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nonaggression, nondiscrimination, nonfiction, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, objection, obligation, observation, obsession, obstruction, occupation, ocean, operation, oppression, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overexpansion, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, passion, pasteurization, penetration, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, possession, potion, precaution, precession, precipitation, preconception, predestination, prediction, predilection, preelection, preemption, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, procession, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, production, profanation, profession, prognostication, progression, projection, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protection, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaction, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recession, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recollection, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, reconstruction, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reflection, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regression, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinspection, reintegration, reinterpretation, reintroduction, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejection, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, replication, repossession, representation, repression, reproduction, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, restriction, resumption, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retraction, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secession, secretion, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subscription, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, subtraction, suburbanization, succession, suction, suffocation, summation, superstation, suppression, suspension, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, titillation, toleration, traction, transaction, transcription, transection, transformation, transgression, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, venetian, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: cousins, isospin, spinous. | |
-3 letters: cousin, cuspis, ionics, opsins, pionic, piscos, scions, sonics. | |
-4 letters: cions, coins, conus, coups, cusps, cusso, icons, incus, ionic, nisus, opsin, pions, pious, pisco, pisos, scion, scops, scups, sinus, snips, sonic, soups, spics, spins, uncos. | |
-5 letters: cion, coin, coni, cons, cops, coss, coup, cups, cusp, cuss, icon, ions, nips, nisi, nous. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: cousinship, suspicions. | |
+2 letters: cousinships, pincushions, suspicioned. | |
+3 letters: cuspidations, inauspicious, liposuctions, spiculations, subscription, suspicioning, unsuspicious. | |
+4 letters: conspicuities, custodianship, inconspicuous, percussionist, subscriptions, supplications. | |
+5 letters: auspiciousness, capriciousness, corruptionists, custodianships, haruspications, inauspiciously, instructorship, percussionists, perniciousness, picornaviruses, pneumoconiosis, psycholinguist, superscription, suspiciousness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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