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complicity
[ kuhm-plis-i-tee ]
noun
- the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing:
complicity in a crime.
Synonyms: connivance, implication, intrigue, collusion
complicity
/ kəmˈplɪsɪtɪ /
noun
- the fact or condition of being an accomplice, esp in a criminal act
- a less common word for complexity
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Other Words From
- com·plici·tous adjective
- noncom·plici·ty noun plural noncomplicities
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Word History and Origins
Origin of complicity1
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Example Sentences
The documents also highlight the apparent complicity by secular law enforcement in keeping some of these offenders out of jail.
And we have an amazing complicity, an amazing respect for each other.
We were never asked to confront our own complicity as sponsors of the game.
What sports pundits rarely bother to do is confront themselves, or their audiences, about their complicity in this pattern.
It is a site devoted to ending all privacy and putting everything in public view, with our complicity and cooperation.
Neither had the slightest suspicion of the lawyers complicity in the events of the night before.
Already, however, had returning shame made everybody unwilling to avow his complicity in the crime.
Perhaps he preferred doubt to shocking certainty, as if he could thus escape the remorse attendant upon criminal complicity.
Hinde, too, is accused of complicity, and both are taken in chains through the town.
Accordingly, it was asserted that the arrested Sinn Feiners had been guilty of complicity in a German plot.
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