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suspiciously

 adverb
     
sus‧pi‧cious‧ly
1 in a way that shows you think someone has done something wrong or dishonest:
Meg looked at me suspiciously.
'What do you want it for?' he asked suspiciously.
2 in a way that makes people think that something bad or illegal is happening:
He saw two youths acting suspiciously.
He seemed to be taking a suspiciously long time.
This sounded suspiciously like an attempt to get rid of me.
3 in a way that shows you do not trust something or someone:
They eyed the food suspiciously.
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