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Suspicious vs Accusing - What's the difference?

suspicious | accusing |

As adjectives the difference between suspicious and accusing

is that suspicious is arousing suspicion while accusing is accusatory.

As a verb accusing is

.

As a noun accusing is

accusation.

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

    Related terms

    * suspect * suspicion * unsuspecting

    See also

    * odd * strange

    accusing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Accusatory.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • accusation
  • * 1840 , Johnson Grant, Sketches in divinity (page 77)
    • What are these accusings and self-approbations, but a fearful looking-for of judgment, and a prophesying that verily there is a reward for the righteous — natural indications, in short, of a future state?