A suspicious woman

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Hello
I am a bit confused about the word suspicious. Please read the background to see what I have a problem with.

Background: a woman rushed to the exit, she rushed off a plane, but she was stopped by the cabin crew because she was suspicious, her behaviour was suspicious.

1. By rushing to the exit she became suspicious of planting a bomb and stopped by the cabin crew.

Is the verb suspicious used correctly here? Or maybe I should say:

2. By rushing to the exit she became suspected of planning a bomb and stopped by the cabin crew.

Are both correct?
Thank you

 

[MikeNewYork]

The first is not correct. It was the crew who became suspicious, not the woman.

In #2, I would change "became" to "was" and "planning" to "planting".

 

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Thanks for clarifying. So now we could say:

She rushed off the plane. The cabin crew became suspicious of her behaviour, and as a result she was suspected of planting a bomb.

PS
So I was right to be suspicious of the two tricky expressions. On the other hand, I have never been suspected of anything wrong

 

[MikeNewYork]

You really shouldn't say that someone was suspected because because someone else was suspicious. Try again.

 

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What do you mean? Why not? It was suspicious when she rushed off the plane. The airport security was alarmed by a stewardess. She was questioned by the police and suspected of planting a bomb.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I mean that it is very clumsy to say: "You were suspected because you were suspicious". Choose another set of words.

 

[emsr2d2]

Be warned though that it is perfectly possible to say that the woman on the plane looked suspicious. That means she looked like she was doing something wrong/illegal.

She looked suspicious which made the crew suspicious.

Note that that's not a good combination words for the same reason Mike gave about "suspected/suspicious".

 

[Raymott]

Just to underline a point: 'suspicious' can be applied to both the suspect and person who suspects them. In that sense, it can be ambiguous.
"The policeman saw a man acting suspiciously, and he became suspicious." It's not that being suspicious is contagious; it's that it has two complementary meanings.

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

Yes, indeed.
In fact, when someone becomes suspicious they don't become suspicious themselves, they become suspicous of someone or something else.

 

[Rover_KE]

Note:

The airport security was [STRIKE]alarmed[/STRIKE] alerted by a stewardess.

 

[emsr2d2]

We don't generally use "the" with "airport security".

Airport security was/were alerted by a stewardess.
The airport security guard/guards was/were alerted ...