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adjective

choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.

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It was unwittingly, or perhaps wittingly, complicit in the cover-up of a scandal.

When colleges accept such money, they are complicit in the degradation of higher-education research.

Other managers were either complicit or turned a blind eye.

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It was unwittingly, or perhaps wittingly, complicit in the cover-up of a scandal.

When colleges accept such money, they are complicit in the degradation of higher-education research.

Other managers were either complicit or turned a blind eye.

Multiple warning signs were not addressed, making the agencies complicit in the abuse.

First, our hiring practices make us complicit in the problem.

Meanwhile, bigger questions are being asked about how complicit business schools should feel in shaping the economic crisis.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has said repeatedly that there was no evidence that the two auditors were complicit in the fraud.

In short, they refuse to be complicit with a set of rules they have come to see as wrong.

Those complicit in such gross incompetence span both industry and government.

Broadbent claimed that the book falsely depicts him as complicit in a crime.

The sports audience is complicit in its own deception, downright eager to be thus misled.

They are complicit in the actions of this government.

If you don't support legalization, you are complicit in this murder and destruction.

Crooked police and migration officers are frequently complicit.

One bioethicist says physicians have been complicit in the failure to control spiraling health care costs.

To be sure, junior faculty members are themselves complicit in such retrograde moves.

But to prevent taxpayers from becoming complicit in the destruction of human.

Research has now implicated factors as far-ranging as stress and the lack of quality sleep as complicit forces in the epidemic.

So, what is needed is new parties not seen as complicit in the present situation, with an ideology to match.

They deliberately contorted the law to justify decisions that had already been made, making them complicit in those decisions.

In any case, the authorities are all too often complicit in the crime.

His narrative becomes eerily complicit in this by interleaving historical reports with his own experience.

The article does mention that prison guards and others are not infrequently complicit in the abuse.

They would have to be truly complacent and complicit if they do nothing to clean up the sport.

To take responsibility for the ways each of us has become complicit in the civil-rights violations of our era.

Your posts are more consistent with one who might be complicit in the shenanigans going on, rather than one who wants it to end.

Universities have been complicit in their own demise.

What matters is that government not be either complicit or co-opted into the blowing of bubbles.

Academics are fully complicit in this--which has not necessarily been good for the country.

All were complicit in this ridiculous ecological mayhem.

To a certain degree, the faculty itself is complicit in the problems campus wide at this school.

We have a housing bubble because so many people were complicit.

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World English Dictionary

complicit (ˌkɒmˈplɪsɪt)

—*adj*
	involved with others in reprehensible or illegal activity

[C20: back formation from complicity]

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