A Suspicious Divide
A diagram showing that 'suspicious' can mean either suspecting or being suspected.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-02-26-a-suspicious-divide/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Statement → Meaning] "The detective is suspicious" → "The detective suspects something" · "The defendant is suspicious" → "I suspect the defendant of something" · "The mayor is suspicious" → (depends on your mayor)
Mayor: "You know what's 'suspicious'? A word with two opposite meanings, that's what."