Alleged vs Suspect - What's the difference?
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(allege)
contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; foolish
To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
* Milton
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, title= To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
To believe (someone) to be guilty.
To have suspicion.
(obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
* (rfdate) (John Milton):
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(nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
* 2004 , Will Nickell, letter to the editor of Field & Stream , Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005),
As verbs the difference between alleged and suspect
is that alleged is past tense of allege while suspect is to imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.As adjectives the difference between alleged and suspect
is that alleged is contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; foolish while suspect is viewed with suspicion; suspected.As a noun suspect is
a person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.alleged
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Verb
(en verb)- to suspect the presence of disease
- From her hand I could suspect no ill.
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- to suspect the truth of a story
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* (imagine or suppose to be true) imagine, suppose, think * (sense) distrust, doubt * (believe to be guilty) accuse, point the finger atNoun
(wikipedia suspect) (en noun)- Round up the usual suspects.'' — ''Casablanca
Adjective
(en adjective)- What I can do or offer is suspect .
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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- Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.