Complicit
adjective
Being involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.
She was complicit in the burglary that took place last night.
Often appears as...
- be complicit in
- becoming complicit
adjective
Being involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.
She was complicit in the burglary that took place last night.
Often appears as...
- be complicit in
- becoming complicit
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Complicit carries a negative implication of being deliberately involved in something bad.
The manager was complicit in the fraudulent activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or news reports to suggest involvement in unethical or illegal acts.
Officials were found complicit in the embezzlement scandal.
Pro Tip 3/3Passive Role
Being complicit doesn't always mean actively participating, but sometimes knowingly allowing it.
By staying silent, he was complicit in the cover-up.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Complicit carries a negative implication of being deliberately involved in something bad.
The manager was complicit in the fraudulent activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or news reports to suggest involvement in unethical or illegal acts.
Officials were found complicit in the embezzlement scandal.
Pro Tip 3/3Passive Role
Being complicit doesn't always mean actively participating, but sometimes knowingly allowing it.
By staying silent, he was complicit in the cover-up.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Complicit carries a negative implication of being deliberately involved in something bad.
The manager was complicit in the fraudulent activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or news reports to suggest involvement in unethical or illegal acts.
Officials were found complicit in the embezzlement scandal.
Pro Tip 3/3Passive Role
Being complicit doesn't always mean actively participating, but sometimes knowingly allowing it.
By staying silent, he was complicit in the cover-up.
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The Power of Photography...
smelters and production factories in Asia when it's turned into electronic products those electronic products are then shipped to stores around the world and we buy them so we are complicit in this conflict more than anyone we have a responsibility more than anyone to engage and increase our knowledge about
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Jackson Katz: Violence...
But there's so many men who care deeply about these issues, but caring deeply is not enough. We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.
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Why should you read...
In this barren world, Montag learns how difficult it is to resist when there's nothing left to hold on to. Altogether, Fahrenheit 451 is a portrait of independent thought on the brink of extinction - and a parable about a society which is complicit in its own combustion.
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Erika Pinheiro: What's...
confirmed that my own government had been complicit in issuing this travel alert against me. And since then, I haven't traveled to any other countries, because I'm afraid I'll be detained and deported from those countries as well. These travel restrictions, detentions
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Luis H. Zayas: The...
They are fleeing some of the worst violence in the world. They've been attacked by gangs, assaulted, raped, extorted, threatened. They have faced death. And they can't turn to their police because the police are complicit, corrupt, ineffective.
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Inside the mind of a...
We told ourselves we were fighting for the oppressed, but these were unwinnable wars. We became the very instrument through which more deaths occurred, complicit in causing further misery for the selfish benefit of the cruel few.
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How we can eliminate...
so these kids have a voice; the will of companies to take action and make sure that their platforms are not complicit in the abuse of a child; the will of governments to invest with their law enforcement
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Black Women and the...
and otherwise um are complicit with anti-black racism within um the various facets of the suffrage movement this means that the suffrage associations that we most frequently associate with the road to
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Art that transforms...
it's a world city. Like all our cities, it's dedicated to toil, trade and traffic. It's a machine to get you to work on time and back, and we're all complicit in wanting the routines to be fixed
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Why we must confront the...
publicly and privately, in small ways and in large ways. We must do the things that will bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice. To do nothing is to be complicit in inequality.
Video examples
The Power of Photography...
smelters and production factories in Asia when it's turned into electronic products those electronic products are then shipped to stores around the world and we buy them so we are complicit in this conflict more than anyone we have a responsibility more than anyone to engage and increase our knowledge about
Video examples
Jackson Katz: Violence...
But there's so many men who care deeply about these issues, but caring deeply is not enough. We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.
Video examples
Why should you read...
In this barren world, Montag learns how difficult it is to resist when there's nothing left to hold on to. Altogether, Fahrenheit 451 is a portrait of independent thought on the brink of extinction - and a parable about a society which is complicit in its own combustion.
Video examples
Erika Pinheiro: What's...
confirmed that my own government had been complicit in issuing this travel alert against me. And since then, I haven't traveled to any other countries, because I'm afraid I'll be detained and deported from those countries as well. These travel restrictions, detentions
Video examples
Luis H. Zayas: The...
They are fleeing some of the worst violence in the world. They've been attacked by gangs, assaulted, raped, extorted, threatened. They have faced death. And they can't turn to their police because the police are complicit, corrupt, ineffective.
Video examples
Inside the mind of a...
We told ourselves we were fighting for the oppressed, but these were unwinnable wars. We became the very instrument through which more deaths occurred, complicit in causing further misery for the selfish benefit of the cruel few.
Video examples
How we can eliminate...
so these kids have a voice; the will of companies to take action and make sure that their platforms are not complicit in the abuse of a child; the will of governments to invest with their law enforcement
Video examples
Black Women and the...
and otherwise um are complicit with anti-black racism within um the various facets of the suffrage movement this means that the suffrage associations that we most frequently associate with the road to
Video examples
Art that transforms...
it's a world city. Like all our cities, it's dedicated to toil, trade and traffic. It's a machine to get you to work on time and back, and we're all complicit in wanting the routines to be fixed
Video examples
Why we must confront the...
publicly and privately, in small ways and in large ways. We must do the things that will bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice. To do nothing is to be complicit in inequality.
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Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Canadian Activist
I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by no actual decision, I am inherently complicit in the destruction of the world. It is hard to do the right thing. You have to be militant. You have to be an activist. You have to be branded as green to do the right thing.
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Paolo Bacigalupi
American Writer
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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Hill Harper
American Actor
Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?
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Jim Wallis
American Writer
But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
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George W. Bush
American President
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
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J. B. Pritzker
Argentinian Businessman
If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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K. A. Applegate
American Writer
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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Miriam Toews
Canadian Writer
I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.
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Richard Edelman
American Businessman
To be silent is to be complicit.
Quote examples
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Canadian Activist
I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by no actual decision, I am inherently complicit in the destruction of the world. It is hard to do the right thing. You have to be militant. You have to be an activist. You have to be branded as green to do the right thing.
Quote examples
Paolo Bacigalupi
American Writer
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Quote examples
Hill Harper
American Actor
Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?
Quote examples
Jim Wallis
American Writer
But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Quote examples
Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
Quote examples
George W. Bush
American President
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
Quote examples
J. B. Pritzker
Argentinian Businessman
If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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K. A. Applegate
American Writer
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
Quote examples
Miriam Toews
Canadian Writer
I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.
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Richard Edelman
American Businessman
To be silent is to be complicit.
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