Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or a crime.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being an accomplice; partnership in wrong-doing or in an objectionable act: usually followed by with before the person and in before the thing: as, complicity with a criminal, or in a criminal act.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
complicit ;involvement as apartner oraccomplice , especially in acrime or otherwrongdoing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
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Examples
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In an "Organized Crime" panel, he spoke of the $50 billion Mexico drug trade and emphasizing the word "complicity," mentioned that 80 percent of those illicit mind-altering substances are consumed by the USA.
Brad Schreiber: 2011 Festival of Books Highlights Brad Schreiber 2011
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"That's exactly what I call complicity or participation" to torture as defined by the convention, Nowak said at a news conference.
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"That's exactly what I call complicity or participation" to torture as defined by the convention, Nowak said at a news conference.
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"That's exactly what I call complicity or participation" to torture as defined by the convention ...
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“Corporate oligarchy is a form of power, governmental or operational, where such power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative.”
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She argues that these mass spectacles of death and annihilation are "in complicity with the abhorrent."
Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima' 2009
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This needs a certain complicity between the writer and reader.
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That sort of silent complicity is tragically a reality that turns many lonely teens into the headlines we've seen too many times in the past month.
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Sen. John McCain's wife Cindy appears in a new ad that harshly criticizes the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and government officials and religious leaders generally, over what she and others describe as complicity in the bullying that has led to a rash of highly-publicized suicides among gay youth.
Cindy McCain Speaks Out Against DADT While John McCain Defends It (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Sen. John McCain's wife Cindy appears in a new ad that harshly criticizes the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and government officials and religious leaders generally, over what she and others describe as complicity in the bullying that has led to a rash of highly-publicized suicides among gay youth.
Cindy McCain Speaks Out Against DADT While John McCain Defends It (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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