Meaning & use

sus

adjective·Everyday

Informal slang for suspicious, questionable, or likely to be dishonest.

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That excuse he gave for being late sounded pretty sus to me.

It's sus that he left the party right when the cake went missing.

A note on using this word

Sus is casual internet and youth slang, popularized partly by online games, and is best avoided in formal writing.

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