Believable and Suspicious

Believable

Believable adjective - Worthy of being accepted as true or reasonable.
Usage example: she had a believable excuse for missing the deadline

Suspicious is an antonym for believable.

Nearby Words: believing, believed, believer

Suspicious

Suspicious adjective - Giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged.

Believable is an antonym for suspicious in topics: doubtful, distrustful.

Nearby Words: suspicion, suspiciously

Both words in one sentence

  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit Ivelisse Vélez returned to SHINE Wrestling from TNA with taped ribs, which would have been believable if one only watched SHINE but should have made any TNA viewers suspicious.
  • Comic Book / Brody's Ghost Attempting to use believable but easily dissected cover stories just makes her suspicious, and he has to admit to seeing Talia's ghost for her to be willing to talk to him.
  • To be fair, Batman's biases are showing: a boy named 'potter', an aunt named Petunia, who lives on Privet (A kind of hedge) Drive, and the lies about his parents the Dursleys fed to Harry, while believable to a young child, ring incredibly false to Batman's suspicious mind.
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