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com·plic·it
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kəmˈplɪs
ɪt
/
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k
uh
m-
plis
-it
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adjective
choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.
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complicit
(ˌkɒmˈplɪsɪt)
—
adj
involved with others in reprehensible or illegal activity
[C20: back formation from
complicity
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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It was unwittingly, or perhaps wittingly,
complicit
in the cover-up of a scandal.
They would have to be truly complacent and
complicit
if they do nothing to clean up the sport.
The sports audience is
complicit
in its own deception, downright eager to be thus misled.
Complicit
in this is a media that hyped the dangers of nuclear to scare the
public away.
It has also not demonstrated it is vigorously investigating or prosecuting
complicit
officials.
Appears the city is
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in allowing illegal fireworks.
At first it simply didn't dawn on him that people would actually think him
complicit
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In the descent of our manned space program into stultified irrelevance, we're all a little bit
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When citizens are made
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No efforts to prosecute government officials
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in trafficking have been reported.
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