Strangers are justifiably suspicious.

The thing made an irregular ticking noise and, justifiably suspicious of any gnome invention, the farmer quickly set the device down.

He admitted that these attentions might fall short of rapture, but he guessed that if he had done anything more, she would have been justifiably suspicious about his recent private conduct.

Other hivers are justifiably suspicious of House Delaque, who specialise in spying and assassination.

Mr. Mandela's followers are justifiably suspicious of subterfuges meant to divide blacks and entrench white privileges under a democratic facade.

In his years of wandering around the galaxy, Jason had encountered very little unselfish charity and was justifiably suspicious.

"A nodality exists, as Atoning Unifex implied; but one is justifiably suspicious of jumping to the most obvious conclusion."

Prior to the ACIP, the ecological sciences had become a proverbial Tower of Babel, with environmentalists and industry each justifiably suspicious of the other's self-serving science.

A few imperceptible clicks later, the scowl of a justifiably suspicious 16-year-old asked to be a guinea pig for a technology experiment was captured in full color, at high resolution, on Apple Computer Inc.'s new Quick Take 100 digital camera.

The CNBC ticker tape flows while Martha Stewart's mother suggests adding pineapple to the rice pudding; Martha, justifiably suspicious, offers that maybe raisins would be more traditional.