Amazing, Samantha thought, how "involved herself" could sound so suspicious.

Now that he was dead, the whole thing sounded suspicious.

She found it odd that he sounded suspicious and skeptical.

"That certainly sounds suspicious," George said, reaching for another photograph.

But his mind couldn't come up with anything that didn't sound suspicious.

I asked, and I was feeling better enough to sound suspicious.

"Perhaps," I said, and even to me it sounded suspicious.

But then, perhaps it did not sound so suspicious to her since she knew nothing of the painting.

It's a common language between the two of you, and it won't sound suspicious.