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What's the difference between suspicious and skeptical?
What's the difference between suspicious and skeptical?
Jan 21, 2013 3:01 PM
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Not much to be honest.
Skeptical is when your not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations.
Suspicious is having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something.
January 21, 2013
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Being skeptical pertains to doubting thoughts or ideas. Suspicious is more general and also has a more pejorative meaning. One might be suspicious of a person, for example.
January 21, 2013
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