Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

suspiciously

/səspˈɪʃəsli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables: sus-pi-cious-ly
IPA: /səspˈɪʃəsli/

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a way suggesting suspicion.

adv

In a way that arouses suspicion.

adv

Causing suspicion.

adv

To a degree that makes one suspect something.

Example Sentences

"The police officer looked at her suspiciously."
"She was behaving very suspiciously."
"Suspiciously, he had taken out an insurance policy on his wife just months earlier."
"It looked suspiciously like a molding-compound repair of a dent."
"Her paper was suspiciously well-written."
"Yes. Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates. Perhaps because, as noted by many TikTok users – and over the weekend both Today and the New York Times – many of these girl dinners are “suspiciously low cal”."

Etymology

Etymology tree English suspicious Middle English -ly English -ly English suspiciously From suspicious + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more suspiciously (comparative) most suspiciously (superlative)

Rhymes With

viciously surreptitiously expeditiously ambitiously

Questions

How do you pronounce suspiciously?: The recorded pronunciation is /səspˈɪʃəsli/.
What does suspiciously mean?: In a way suggesting suspicion.
Where does suspiciously come from?: Etymology tree English suspicious Middle English -ly English -ly English suspiciously From suspicious + -ly.

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