abet
verb (used with object)
to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing.
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The latter’s rascality was patent, but Simmons could not have been successful unabetted by his own blind negligence.
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer