complicity
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ɪ noun, plural com·plic·i·ties.
the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing: complicity in a crime.
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| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | the fact or condition of being an accomplice, esp in a criminal act |
| 2. | a less common word for complexity |
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Complicity
is always a great word to know.
So is contaminate. Does it mean:
| serving to compose or make up a thing; component: |
| to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean |
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Word Origin & History
complicity
1650s, from Fr. complicité, from M.Fr., from O.Fr. complice "accomplice," from L.L. complicem, acc. of complex "partner, confederate," from L. complicare "to fold together" (see complicate).
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Example sentences
Three times you have failed to come forward and admit responsibility for and complicity in the scandals.
Democracy exists in continuous complicity with euphemism.
Leaders in the region, lulled into complicity by the ease with which they had subdued their populations to date, didn't listen.
Two former cabinet ministers were sentenced to three years for complicity in the killings.
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