complicit
Use Complicit in a sentence
ɪt adjective
choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.
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| —adj | |
| involved with others in reprehensible or illegal activity | |
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Complicit
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example sentences
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.
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