suspectless
English
Etymology
suspect + -less
Adjective
suspectless (comparative more suspectless, superlative most suspectless)
- With no criminal suspects.
- 2001, Norah Rudin, Keith Inman, An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, Second Edition (page 161)
- After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked.
- 2001, Norah Rudin, Keith Inman, An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, Second Edition (page 161)
- (obsolete) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. Herbert to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Not suspected; not mistrusted.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for suspectless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)