suspicionless
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8.4
- adjective
- /səˈspɪʃənləs/
- Formal
:
sin sospechas
- The police conducted a suspicionless search of the area, stopping individuals without any evidence of wrongdoing.
- suspicionless testing
Examples
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Computers, however, remove this resource constraint and make it possible for police to conduct suspicionless investigations on a massive scale.
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The Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court decision supporting the suspicionless drug testing of all students suspended for fighting.
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In her order, the judge found: "Suspicionless stops should never occur."
Blog text (11) -
Instead, it is a warrantless and suspicionless search for evidence of a crime.
Blog text (14) -
Use of these algorithms, however, would allow police to conduct suspicionless investigations into citizens' private data for evidence of ordinary criminal wrongdoing.
Academic text (2018) -
Moreover, the narrow issue before the Court, as argued by the arrestee's lawyer, was whether suspicionless strip searches were illegal "no matter what the circumstances."
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Suspicionless screening of mail for anthrax is thus justified under the contraband-only doctrine.
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In Delaware v. Prouse, for example, the Court considered whether police may perform suspicionless traffic stops to verify drivers' licenses and vehicle registrations.
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But algorithmic searches also make possible a twenty-first century version of general warrants: suspicionless searches for ordinary evidence of criminal wrongdoing on an unprecedented scale.
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Consequently, the random and suspicionless dog sniff search of high school students violated students' Fourth Amendment rights (B.C. v. Plumas Unified School District, 1999).
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
79
7.2
Being free from blame or suspicion
Antonyms
How Suspicious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Suspicionless comes from suspicion 'a feeling that someone may have done something wrong' and the ending -less 'without'. So, suspicionless means done 'without suspicion', for example a search where no one is suspected.