suspiciously

adverb (DOUBT)

/səˈspɪʃ.əs.li/

Definition

B2 in a way that makes you think that something is wrong: He looked at her suspiciously. The children are suspiciously quiet (= are so quiet that they are probably doing something wrong). His hair is suspiciously black (= looks darker than it should be, and is therefore probably not natural) for a man of his age.Strange, suspicious and unnaturalSuspecting and questioningQuestioning people and asking questions in generalCuriosity

(Definition of suspiciously adverb (DOUBT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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