just sus
- adjective
- Slang
:
simplemente sospechoso
- His story about being late was just sus and nobody believed him.
Examples
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Those last-minute changes to the contract seemed just sus to the lawyer.
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That deal sounds just sus to me.
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The way he avoided eye contact was just sus to everyone in the group.
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I think he's just sus because of his behavior.
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His story about being late was just sus and nobody believed him.
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The way he avoided eye contact was just sus to everyone in the group.
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That deal sounds just sus to me.
Synonyms
138
3.2
Not trusting other people or what they say
98
5.3
Seen as probably dishonest or not trustworthy
79
5.5
Not honest and likely to do illegal things
15
9.9
Seeming strange and not trustworthy
3
9.9
A person who seems untrustworthy and suspicious
1
8.6
A little suspicious and not easy to trust
1
9.6
Appearing dishonest or not trustworthy
Appearing dishonest or not trustworthy
Slightly suspicious and not completely trustworthy
A person or thing that seems dishonest and not trustworthy
Antonyms
How Suspicious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'just' (simply/only) modifies 'sus' (suspicious), yielding 'simply suspicious' with no idiomatic shift. This follows a standard modifier + adjective pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words (noting that 'sus' is informal slang) would readily understand it.
Etymology
Just sus comes from the slang sus, short for 'suspicious', used in online games where players point at someone who looks guilty or acts odd. With just meaning 'only', saying just sus is a quick way to say someone or something is 'only suspicious', not proven guilty, which is why it means 'simply suspicious'.