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Designing vs Suspicious - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between designing and suspicious

is that designing is artful; scheming while suspicious is arousing suspicion.

As a verb designing

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun designing

is a process of design.

designing

English

(design)

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • artful; scheming
  • a designing man

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process of design.
  • * 1829 , Richard Carlile, The Lion
  • Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?

    suspicious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Arousing suspicion.
  • His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
  • Distrustful or tending to suspect.
  • I have a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
  • Expressing suspicion
  • She gave me a suspicious look.

    Synonyms

    * questionable * doubtful

    Derived terms

    * suspiciously * suspiciousness

    See also

    * odd * strange