muddy, turbid, opaque → suspicious 5 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 43130)
type Polysemy
language Croatian
lexeme mutan
meaning 1 hazy, turbid, opaque
direction →
meaning 2 suspicious, questionable

mutan čovjek, mutni poslovi


suspicious man, suspicious dealings

reference HJP
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ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 22240)
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme louche
meaning 1 vague, turbid, hazy Ce vin est louche; ciel louche
This wine is not clear, cloudy skies
direction →
meaning 2 bad; suspicious, troubling un type louche; une histoire louche
an odd guy, an odd story
reference Larousse online
comment The first meaning of the adjective is 'squint-eyed'.
ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 43132)
type Polysemy
language Hungarian
lexeme homályos
meaning 1 blurry

Homályos kép. Látása homályossá vált. 


Blurry image. His/her vision became blurry.

direction →
meaning 2 suspicious, questionable

Homályos múlt, homályos ügy


Suspicious past, a suspicious affair

reference MEK 1978
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ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 22241)
type Polysemy
language Russian
lexeme мутный
meaning 1 hazy, turbid, opaque Пруд был еще не велик и мутен... А. Кожевников, Живая вода
The pond was yet small and turbid...
direction →
meaning 2 suspicious, questionable Бизнес у него какой-то мутный был в начале перестройки. [Наталья Харпалёва. Второй срок (2015)]
He had some suspicious business in the beginning of the perestroika.
reference MAS The Russian National Corpus
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ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 43131)
type Polysemy
language Serbian
lexeme мутан (mutan)
meaning 1 hazy, turbid, opaque

Voda mutna na površini nije nas zabrinjavala jer smo znali da je vidljivost u dubljim slojevima obično jako dobra.


The cloudy water on the surface did not worry us because we knew that the visibility in the deeper layers is usually very good.

direction →
meaning 2 suspicious, questionable

Kjuzak će igrati mutnog advokata koji pokušava da prevari svoje mafijaške šefove za novac.


Cusack will play a suspicious lawyer who tries to con his mob bosses out of money.

reference Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 744 CLARIN.SI
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