VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Above suspicion

Meaning:

This phrase is used to describe a person who is honest enough that no one would suspect.

Examples:

  • In my life, the need made leave me of the things above suspicion.
  • I think that we must also ensure that the agricultural accounts are above suspicion.
  • We have to be seen to be above suspicion in every possible way.
  • Must be above suspicion.
  • Recent conclusions by two advocates-general at the European Court of Justice have demonstrated that this principle is no longer above suspicion.
  • I am especially pleased that, despite the shock waves that have reverberated through the Commission recently - even though the Commissioner himself is above suspicion in this affair - he has not stopped promoting this extremely useful work in the area of financial services.
  • It has been said and must be said again that even NGOs such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace and even people who are completely above suspicion such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta have been intercepted by the Echelon system.
  • At the moment, no one is above suspicion.
  • Somewhere public, so he would be above suspicion.
  • Lucy is above suspicion, and always has been.