Suspect
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: To be viewed with suspicion.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To imagine or suppose (something) to be true without evidence. To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone). To believe (someone) to be guilty without proof. To have suspicion.
Example sentence: I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
Defendant
Part of speech: noun
Definition: In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.In criminal proceedings, the accused.
Example sentence: I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.