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suspiciously

adverb (SEEM GUILTY)
 
 
/səˈspɪʃ.əs.li/

Definition

in a way that makes you think someone is guilty of something wrong or illegal: The officers noticed two men acting suspiciously (= as if they were doing something wrong).Strange, suspicious and unnatural
(Definition of suspiciously adverb (SEEM GUILTY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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