\Sus*pi"cious\, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L.
suspiciosus. See {Suspicion}.]
1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to
   imagine without proof.
         Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will
         ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person
         he suspects.                          --South.
         Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make
         men of merit suspicious of each other. --Pope.
2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
         We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained
         countenance.                          --Swift.
3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving
   reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of
   suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
         I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.
                                               --Shak.
Syn: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful;
     questionable. See {Jealous}. -- {Sus*pi"cious*ly}, adv.
     -- {Sus*pi"cious*ness}, n.