complicity
noun
the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing.
complicities
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pluralof complicity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In a culture that refuses to accept its responsibilities, its complicities, we are all reduced, in some essential measure, to a state of savagery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
When it is shorn from the past that has molded its character—the countless connections and complicities that become ever more entwined over generations—a community is deprived of a future.
From Slate ● May 25, 2021
Our traumas and lapsed memories, our silences or complicities, as compared to the current youth culture, to find confirmation that we have evolved.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2018
What Price suggests is that anyone, bound up in the tangled complicities of corrupting power, may become an interrogator.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, she knew now—knew weaknesses and strengths she had not dreamed of, and the deep discord and still deeper complicities between what thought in her and what blindly wanted...
From The Reef by Edith Wharton
