complicity
the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing: complicity in a crime.
Origin of complicity
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Other words from complicity
- com·plic·i·tous, adjective
- non·com·plic·i·ty, noun, plural non·com·plic·i·ties.
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How to use complicity in a sentence
Justice Minister Gustavo Villatoro suggested that the depth and complexity of the secret burial site pointed to the complicity of more than one person.
Eight Pits Full of Murdered Women Found in Ex Cop’s Backyard in El Salvador | Barbie Latza Nadeau | May 21, 2021 | The Daily BeastA submission to, and eventual complicity with racism normalized a dynamic that should not exist.
You wrote on Twitter that when people have the power to help but sit idly by, then their silence is complicity.
'This Is A Human Issue.' Daniel Dae Kim on Coming Together to Combat Bigotry | Cady Lang | March 19, 2021 | TimeAs for Spears, it is a very good thing that we are finally talking about the objectification, infantilization, gaslighting, ridicule and invasions of privacy she’s suffered—and about our own complicity in that suffering.
From Britney to Buffy, We're Suddenly Rethinking Postfeminist Pop Culture—and Nothing Could Be Healthier | Judy Berman | March 2, 2021 | TimeIts supporters, inter alia, pressure American companies to end their complicity with Israeli apartheid by ceasing operations on occupied land.
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.
Diane von Furstenberg: How I Learned to Love My Wrap Dress | Lizzie Crocker | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe 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.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonAlready, however, had returning shame made everybody unwilling to avow his complicity in the crime.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry BairdPerhaps he preferred doubt to shocking certainty, as if he could thus escape the remorse attendant upon criminal complicity.
File No. 113 | Emile GaboriauHinde, 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.
The Evolution of Sinn Fein | Robert Mitchell Henry
British Dictionary definitions for complicity
/ (kəmˈplɪsɪtɪ) /
the fact or condition of being an accomplice, esp in a criminal act
a less common word for complexity
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