It’s from Needful Things, one of my favorites. It sits on a shelf ten feet to my right.

The “context” is actually pretty clear -

The things the townspeople start to buy, they covet, jealously. To the point where they don’t even like to show off their prized possessions - in this scene Brian is being described as keeping the card as a secret, almost hoarding it away even though it’s something he’d normally be proud of and show off.

There’s zero context that makes the word into what you desperately want it to be.

King chose the word because it literally fucking means exactly what person after person has TOLD you in the notes, you idiot. Go racebait somewhere else.

Bonus round:

As opposed to some asshole trying to virtue signal on Twitter, over a word that has absolutely no connotations to be “#suspicious” about?

Don’t backtrack now that you’ve realized what an ass you’ve made of yourself.