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Suspect

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Similar meaning 2

Questionable 84% connected

Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Questionable 84% connected

Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Narrower term 2

Accused 76% connected

of Accuse

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Codefendant 76% connected

A joint defendant.

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Broader term 16

Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Disbelieve 76% connected

Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.

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Discredit 76% connected

The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Guess 76% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Hazard 76% connected

A game of chance played with dice.

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Imagine 76% connected

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

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Litigant 76% connected

Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.

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Litigator 76% connected

One who litigates.

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Opine 76% connected

To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.

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Pretend 76% connected

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Suppose 76% connected

To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Venture 76% connected

An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Manner of action 1

Doubt 76% connected

To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the…

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Hypothesis 74% connected

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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Hypothesis 74% connected

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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Suspicion 74% connected

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very sl…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Suspicion 74% connected

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very sl…

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Synonym 8

Defendant 92% connected

Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.

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Distrust 92% connected

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistru…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fishy 92% connected

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Funny 92% connected

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mistrust 92% connected

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shady 92% connected

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Surmise 92% connected

A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suspicious 92% connected

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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