Betekenis van suspiciously In het Nederlands

• 0 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.

• 1 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).

• 2 in a way that makes you think something may be true:

  • She brushed away what looked suspiciously like (= looked as if it probably was) a tear.

• 3 in a way that causes or expresses doubt or a lack of trust:

  • Our mayor won election by a suspiciously narrow margin.

  • Her eyes narrowed suspiciously.

• 4 in a way that makes you feel that something is likely or true:

  • The envelope contained something that looked suspiciously like airline tickets (= seemed likely to be airline tickets).