complicity
noun
the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing.
complicitous
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a word derived from
complicity.
Example Sentences
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Forgetting this history is less an act of historical ignorance than a complicitous practice of reviving the conditions that give birth to the horrors of the past.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2018
“La Chienne” is a ferocious, bitterly ironic drama, a diabolical satire on bourgeois hypocrisy that replaces complicitous laughter with accusatory roars of derision.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2016
Men partner one another briefly at various points, women group together in complicitous array at others.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2015
But there should be no room in our system for countries that are complicitous in tax avoidance.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2013
In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
