Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Guilty of complicity; tending to involve.
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- adjective
Complicit .
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Examples
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Suraiya looked up at her in a friendly, complicitous way and laughed.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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Let us be done at last with all these wretched lies, these complicitous self-deceptions that are facilitating atrocity and tyranny on a monstrous scale.
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The latest rant from the flame-fanning media and the complicitous GOP is directed at the Cordoba House, now renamed Park 51.
Yuna Shin: "Ground Zero Mosque:" Politics of Fear and Persecution Assail American Character 2010
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When I bring up the rumor that Mr. Karzai is mentally ill, Dr. Abdullah gives me a complicitous look, but only says, "His way of thinking is different from normal people's."
The Man Who Might Have Been 'King' Ann Marlowe 2010
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When I bring up the rumor that Mr. Karzai is mentally ill, Dr. Abdullah gives me a complicitous look, but only says, "His way of thinking is different from normal people's."
The Man Who Might Have Been 'King' Ann Marlowe 2010
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Vainly do you suggest that the Times, via its reporter Judith Miller was also complicitous in the Iraq disaster.
What do you expect ... a Christmas card or love letters from Washington? 2010
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When I bring up the rumor that Mr. Karzai is mentally ill, Dr. Abdullah gives me a complicitous look, but only says, "His way of thinking is different from normal people's."
The Man Who Might Have Been 'King' Ann Marlowe 2010
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Foremost is this: by failing to bring them to justice, we are complicitous in their heinous acts.
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Although perhaps not personally as culpable, though clearly complicitous, were Colin Powell, who could have taken the courageous path of resignation, or General Tommy Franks, who must have seen the folly of the Iraq invasion, yet was a key enabler.
Hoyt Hilsman: The Bush Presidency: Shakespearean Tragedy or Cruel Farce? 2009
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# Seeking disbarment of lawyers who were complicitous in facilitating torture.
oroboros commented on the word complicitous
compLICITous; also, for interest: COmplIciToUS
May 2, 2008