suspiciousness

I will smother down all my pride, my reserve, the horrible suspiciousness which is rooted in my nature.

Agatha's Husband A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

I deny my 'suspiciousness' altogether -- it is not one of my faults.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

I deny my 'suspiciousness' altogether ” it is not one of my faults.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

This style, which Hofstadter understood to include a “sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy,” today finds its clearest expression on talk radio — and not just at night.

The Listener 2010

Dr Harold Lief, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, concluded that Hoover suffered from a personality disorder, a narcissistic disorder with mixed obsessive features… paranoid elements, undue suspiciousness and some sadism.

The secret life of J Edgar Hoover 2012

Carron, who got two months of service for 117 pesos, is relating to us his very positive and encouraging story, and that ought to go a long way toward assuaging some of my negativity and suspiciousness.

CFE Ripoff??? 2009

This style, which Hofstadter understood to include a “sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy,” today finds its clearest expression on talk radio — and not just at night.

The Listener 2010

   Hours earlier, after he noticed the missing knife and as the sun began to haul itself yellow and warm into the Manhattan sky, X watched out the corner of his eye as the black-haired man, acting with a cagey lack of suspiciousness, coolly arranged himself on his threadbare blanket and laid down his few possessions and went to sleep on the grass.

Hotel Chelsea - Intercut 6 2010

Hofstadter, writing in 1964, described the hallmarks of this style: "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy."

Jillian York: Paranoid Politics: The Denial of Islamophobia 2010

The inherent suspiciousness of the anti-Islam movement is so rich that its participants are unable to reconcile the contradiction between their narrative of secretive Islamic terrorists pursuing "jihad" and the high-profile, publicly conciliatory moves such as the Cordoba Initiative's efforts to purchase a building near Ground Zero and convert it into a public community center.

Jillian York: Paranoid Politics: The Denial of Islamophobia 2010