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suspiciously

suspiciously adverb: in a way suggesting suspicion.

Adverb

suspiciously (comparative more suspiciously, superlative most suspiciously)

  1. In a way suggesting suspicion.
    • The police officer looked at her suspiciously.
  2. In a way that arouses suspicion.
    • She was behaving very suspiciously.
  3. (evaluative) Causing suspicion.
    • Suspiciously, he had taken out an insurance policy on his wife just months earlier.
  4. (degree) To a degree that makes one suspect something.
    • It looked suspiciously like a molding-compound repair of a dent.
    • Her paper was suspiciously well-written.

suspiciously meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Punjabi and Vietnamese

suspiciously in Marathi

संशयास्पदपणे

suspiciously in Urdu

suspiciously
اشتباہا iśtibāhan

suspiciously in Punjabi

ਸ਼ੱਕੀ ਤੌਰ ਉੱਤੇ

suspiciously in Vietnamese

In a manner suggesting suspicion
đầy nghi ngờ, đa nghi
in a manner suggesting guilt
đáng ngờ, khả nghi
to a degree that makes one suspect something
một cách đáng ngờ

Forms of suspiciously

comparativemore suspiciously
superlativemost suspiciously

Origin of suspiciously

From suspicious + -ly.

Questions about suspiciously

What does suspiciously mean?
Suspiciously means in a way suggesting suspicion.
What is suspiciously in Marathi?
Suspiciously in Marathi is संशयास्पदपणे. See Suspiciously meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is suspiciously?
Suspiciously is an adverb.

Words near suspiciously in the dictionary

  1. suspicionful
  2. suspicioning
  3. suspicionless
  4. suspicions
  5. suspicious
  6. suspiciously
  7. suspiciousness
  8. suspiral
  9. suspirals
  10. suspiration
  11. suspirations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suspiciously (page history and authors); suspiciously (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); اشتباہا (Urdu) (page history and authors); suspiciously (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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