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What is difference between "suspicious" and "skeptical"?

 
 
Reply Sun 25 Dec, 2011 10:22 pm

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It’s amazing that we ever trust each other to do the right thing, isn’t it? And we do, too. Trust is our first inclination. We have to make a deliberate decision to mistrust someone or to be suspicious or skeptical. Those attitudes don’t come naturally to us.

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Reply Sun 25 Dec, 2011 11:39 pm

To suspect is to believe that there is a good chance
that something is in a particular way.

To be skeptical is to believe that it is unlikely
that something actually IS as it is represented to be.
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