"suspicious toward" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is used to describe someone's feeling of mistrust or doubt toward someone or something. It implies a sense of caution and wariness. Example: "The detective was suspicious toward the suspect's alibi, as it seemed too perfect and rehearsed."
"Since the bombing, the locals are more suspicious toward Muslims," Ucok said, adding that outsiders would nonetheless keep coming here.
It cited the Al Nusra Front and other Islamist rebel groups as among those that were proving to be increasingly intolerant and suspicious toward the media.
Examples listed on a blog called Oberlin Microaggressions include shopkeepers acting suspicious toward people of color, or someone saying to a Jewish student, "Since Hitler is dead, you don't have to worry about being killed by him anymore". A microaggression is not necessarily a deliberate insult, and any one instance might be an honest mistake.
The French press also adopted a suspicious attitude toward Hitler's proposal.
Several of his friends from Halabja voiced similarly suspicious attitudes toward the United States.
None of the relevant decision-makers are willing or able to push back against Mr. Khamenei's hostile and suspicious stance toward the West.
But, he added, "I did start to get suspicious when, toward the end of 2009, Debenedetti kept proposing more interviews to me, and actually submitted three — with Paul Auster, Gore Vidal, and John Grisham.
She ceased to think in any concrete way about the future; she developed a distant, suspicious attitude toward her own body, viewing it as a possible betrayer; and she became engrossed in a systematic review of the past.
(The industry's historically suspicious stance toward innovation was neatly captured in the title of a 2003 study by Peter Dekom and Peter Sealey, a couple of Hollywood veterans. Their book was called "Not on My Watch: Hollywood vs. the Future").
No less heated reactions came from the other end of the political spectrum, where the Obama proposal was denounced not for that short phrase but for what liberals saw as an abandonment of their principles and part of a suspicious move toward the center.
There have been rumors for months that Trump would do what he did Tuesday — fire Rex Tillerson and replace him with Pompeo — and Muslim leaders and their allies have expressed concern about Pompeo's singling out of and suspicious posture toward Muslim Americans.
