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

But there should be no room in our system for countries that are complicitous in tax avoidance.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2013

The movie sees the director in a more caustic aspect, and Alma as not his savior but his enabler, wearing the sly smile of a child complicitous in a nasty prank.

From Time • Nov. 25, 2012

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