| 释义 |
complicit, a.
Brit. |kəmˈplɪsɪt|, U.S. |kəmˈplɪsɪt|
[Apparently a back-formation ‹complicity n., after implicit adj., explicit adj. Compare slightly earlier complicitous adj.]
Involved knowingly or with passive compliance, often in something underhand, sinister, or illegal.
1861F. H. Ludlow in Vanity Fair 5 Jan. 4/2 On the Spanish Sierras he had been complicit with the assassination of a muleteer. 1928Federal Reporter (U.S.) (Lexis) (2nd Ser.) 28 423 The plaintiff was complicit in the matters which caused the revocation of the Waterloo Company's permits. 1975New Lett. Rev. Nov.–Dec. 72 Throughout this period, the whole policy of the British government was supine and complicit. 2005N.Y. Times 16 Jan. ii. 1/1 It was unwittingly, or perhaps wittingly, complicit in the cover-up of a scandal. |