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Synonyms for suspect

believe

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distrust

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  • trust
  • have faith in
  • think innocent

accused

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dubious

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for suspect

to lack trust or confidence in

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Synonyms for suspect

a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law

imagine to be the case or true or probable

regard as untrustworthy

hold in suspicion

not as expected

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"Why, who else could I possibly suspect? Who else, most outspoken prince?" he replied, with an unctuous smile.
So I said to him, "Nonsense, general; if anybody but yourself had said that to me, I'd have taken my head, my own head, and put it on a large dish and carried it round to anyone who suspected you; and I should have said: 'There, you see that head?
"The women will think themselves suspected directly, I said, interrupting him.
"That house is suspected, Treville," said the king; "perhaps you did not know it?"
The house may be suspected; but I deny that it is so in the part of it inhabited my Monsieur d'Artagnan, for I can affirm, sire, if I can believe what he says, that there does not exist a more devoted servant of your Majesty, or a more profound admirer of Monsieur the Cardinal."
"From the moment they are suspected by your Majesty," said Treville, "the Musketeers are guilty; therefore, you see me prepared to surrender my sword--for after having accused my soldiers, there can be no doubt that Monsieur the Cardinal will end by accusing me.
"Do you think I would remain an instant in the company of any man whom I suspected of such baseness as that?" she asked angrily.
Her eyes moved uneasily from object to object in the room, betraying plainly that she suspected what my purpose was in coming to speak to her.
"So I went this morning to Westmor eland House to ask you for my sister's address, and to acknowledge plainly that I suspected you of being again in correspondence with Mrs.
It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains.
Thus N, shall signify a plot; B, a regiment of horse; L, a fleet at sea; or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party.
And they might not even then have suspected it, but for the following little Accident.
Tip got one small prick in his left arm, which smarted for an hour afterward; but the needles had no effect upon the Scarecrow or Jack Pumpkinhead, who never even suspected they were being prodded.
District police chief ACP Nasri Mansor, said the suspect was shot dead when he tried to attack one of the policemen with a sword during an operation at Palm Heights near here at 3.40am today.
RAWALPINDI -- Continuing their investigation into the sexual assault of a university student, the police will interview people close to the male suspect, as they believe he is concealing information that could help reveal his facilitators, if there are any.