The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . .
of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
A. W. Ward.
Syn. -- Jealousy; distrust; mistrust; diffidence; doubt.
Sus*pi"cion, v. t. To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt. [Obs.
or Low] South.
Sus*pi"cious (?), a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See
Suspicion.] 1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to
imagine without proof.
Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be
suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects.
South.
Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit
suspicious of each other.
Pope.