ETYM Latin suspectus, p. p. of suspicere to look up, admire, esteem, to look at secretly or askance, to mistrust; sub under + specere to look: cf. French suspect suspected, suspicious. Related to Spy, Suspicion.
1. Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
2. Suspected; distrusted.

ETYM Late Lat. suspectus. Related to Suspect.
Someone who is under suspicion.

1. To hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty.
2. To imagine to be true or to be the case
3. To imagine to be true; SYN. surmise.
4. To believe guilty.
5. To suspect to be false; SYN. distrust, doubt.