Complicity
noun
The act of helping someone else do something wrong or illegal.
He was arrested for his complicity in the crime.
Often appears as...
- guilty of complicity
- complicity in crime
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Disapproving
noun
The act of helping someone else do something wrong or illegal.
He was arrested for his complicity in the crime.
Often appears as...
- guilty of complicity
- complicity in crime
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Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Complicity carries a negative feeling, suggesting involvement in wrongdoing.
The CEO denied complicity in the embezzlement scandal.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or crime-related contexts to describe aiding unlawful acts.
She faced charges for her complicity in the fraud scheme.
Pro Tip 3/3Moral Implication
Using 'complicity' implies a moral judgment against the actions taken.
His silence on the issue amounted to complicity.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Complicity carries a negative feeling, suggesting involvement in wrongdoing.
The CEO denied complicity in the embezzlement scandal.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or crime-related contexts to describe aiding unlawful acts.
She faced charges for her complicity in the fraud scheme.
Pro Tip 3/3Moral Implication
Using 'complicity' implies a moral judgment against the actions taken.
His silence on the issue amounted to complicity.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Complicity carries a negative feeling, suggesting involvement in wrongdoing.
The CEO denied complicity in the embezzlement scandal.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Often used in legal or crime-related contexts to describe aiding unlawful acts.
She faced charges for her complicity in the fraud scheme.
Pro Tip 3/3Moral Implication
Using 'complicity' implies a moral judgment against the actions taken.
His silence on the issue amounted to complicity.
Compare with
associationcollaborateconnivancecontributioncooperatorinvolvementparticipatepartnership
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Kendra McSweeney: Drugs,...
the expansion of African oil palm plantations. These were planted on illicit lands, on lands illicitly purchased, very close to the Mosquitia, in fact, moving in to the Mosquitia and the result, of course, is that the money narcos can manipulate buys complicity with government officials,
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Should “blackness”...
nor what I ever try to knock the necessity known as black culture but what I am saying is this by claiming blackness as who we are we've been coerced into complicity into reminding
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How to disrupt...
that made their wealth possible he challenged the wealthy to think about inequality and their complicity indeed the complicity of many generous donors
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Kendra McSweeney: Drugs,...
the expansion of African oil palm plantations. These were planted on illicit lands, on lands illicitly purchased, very close to the Mosquitia, in fact, moving in to the Mosquitia and the result, of course, is that the money narcos can manipulate buys complicity with government officials,
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Should “blackness”...
nor what I ever try to knock the necessity known as black culture but what I am saying is this by claiming blackness as who we are we've been coerced into complicity into reminding
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How to disrupt...
that made their wealth possible he challenged the wealthy to think about inequality and their complicity indeed the complicity of many generous donors
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Colin Firth
British Actor
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
French Poet
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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Toni Morrison
American Novelist
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
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Victoria Abril
Spanish Actress
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Pramila Jayapal
American Politician
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
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James Dickey
American Novelist
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
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Rebecca MacKinnon
American Journalist
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
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Ry Cooder
American Musician
Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.
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Michelle Malkin
American Writer
Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
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Lynn Nottage
American Playwright
Silence is complicity. I believe that.
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Colin Firth
British Actor
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
French Poet
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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Toni Morrison
American Novelist
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
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Victoria Abril
Spanish Actress
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Pramila Jayapal
American Politician
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
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James Dickey
American Novelist
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
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Rebecca MacKinnon
American Journalist
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
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Ry Cooder
American Musician
Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.
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Michelle Malkin
American Writer
Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
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Lynn Nottage
American Playwright
Silence is complicity. I believe that.
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