Suspicion

suspicion
    n 1: an impression that something might be the case; "he had an
         intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: {intuition},
         {hunch}, {suspicion}]
    2: doubt about someone's honesty [syn: {misgiving}, {mistrust},
       {distrust}, {suspicion}]
    3: the state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from
       suspicion"
    4: being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed
       his marriage" [syn: {suspicion}, {suspiciousness}]
    

Suspicion \Sus*pi"cion\, v. t.
   To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt. [Obs. or Low]
   --South.
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Suspicion \Sus*pi"cion\, n. [OE. suspecioun, OF. souspe[,c]on,
   F. soup[,c]on, L. suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming
   highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to
   mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is
   in imitation of L. suspicio mistrust, suspicion. See
   {Suspect}, and cf. {Suspicious}.]
   1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of
      the existence of something (esp. something wrong or
      hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or
      upon no evidence.
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            Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds,
            they ever fly by twilight.            --Bacon.
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   2. Slight degree; suggestion; hint. [Colloq.]
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            The features are mild but expressive, with just a
            suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
                                                  --A. W. Ward.
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   Syn: Jealousy; distrust; mistrust; diffidence; doubt.
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SUSPICION. A belief to the disadvantage of another, accompanied by a doubt. 
     2. Without proof, suspicion, of itself, is evidence of nothing. When a 
crime has been committed, an arrest may be made when, 1st. There are such 
circumstances as induce a strong presumption of guilt; as being found in 
possession of goods recently stolen, without giving a probable account of 
having obtained the possession honestly. 2d. The absconding of the party 
accused. 3d. Being found in company of known offenders. 4th. Living an idle 
disorderly life, without any apparent means of support. In such cases the 
arrest must be made as in other cases. Vide 20 Vin. Ab. 150; 4 Bl. Com. 290. 
    

132 Moby Thesaurus words for "suspicion":
      Pyrrhonism, apprehension, apprehensiveness, bare suggestion,
      broad hint, cageyness, cast, caution, cautiousness, chariness,
      clue, concern, cue, dash, diffidence, disinclination to believe,
      distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety,
      dubiousness, feeling, flavor, foreboding, forefeeling,
      funny feeling, gentle hint, gesture, gleam, glimmer, glimmering,
      guardedness, half an idea, half-belief, hazy idea, hesitation,
      hint, hunch, idea, implication, impression, incertitude,
      inconvincibility, incredulity, index, indication, infusion,
      inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, intuition,
      intuitive impression, kick, leeriness, lick, look, mere notion,
      misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, nod, notion, nudge,
      preapprehension, premonition, presentiment, prompt, qualm,
      question, resistiveness to belief, sauce, scent, scepticism,
      scintilla, scruple, scrupulousness, seasoning, second thoughts,
      self-doubt, shade, shadow, shadow of doubt, sign, signal, sip,
      skepticalness, skepticism, smack, smattering, smell,
      sneaking suspicion, soupcon, spark, spice, spoor, sprinkling,
      suggestion, sup, suspect, suspiciousness, symptom, tad, taint,
      taste, telltale, tempering, thought, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint,
      total skepticism, touch, tough-mindedness, trace, track,
      uncertainty, unconvincibility, uncredulousness, unpersuadability,
      unpersuasibility, vague feeling, vague idea, vestige, wariness,
      whiff, whisper, wink, wonder