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complicit
[ kuhm-plis-it ]
adjective
- choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.
complicit
/ ˌkɒmˈplɪsɪt /
adjective
- involved with others in reprehensible or illegal activity
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Word History and Origins
Origin of complicit1
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Example Sentences
They are both complicit in this, though my mother is the more egregious offender.
After all, doing so would make them complicit in irrationality, which is against their religion.
At the age of sixteen these bad guys chase you, often under the amused and complicit watch of policemen.
Even the five who the Nazis turned on, however, were complicit with the regime in some fashion.
But my silence was not only wrong; I am complicit on some level in nurturing the “rape culture” that we see today in our country.
The United States could have accepted the permanent division of Europe, and been complicit in the oppression of others.
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