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单词 complicit
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complicit

(kəmplɪsɪt)
adjective
If someone is complicit in a crime or unfair activity, they are involved in it.
[journalism]
He did not witness her execution, yet he and the others are complicit in her death. [+ in]
A mother who does not report the abuse is said to be complicit.

complicit in British English

(kəmˈplɪsɪt)
adjective
involved with others in reprehensible or illegal activity
Word origin
C20: back formation from complicity

Examples of 'complicit' in a sentence
complicit

Many of us have become complicit in fattening up our offspring.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Victims also alleged that members of hospital staff were complicit in the abuse.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Until you make your friend grasp this you'll always feel morally complicit in his crime.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But charges against former employees accused of being complicit in the abuse were dropped in December.
The Sun (2015)
I'm going to have to become complicit in this.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Had I become complicit in his strange and distasteful project?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
If it does not, or appears complicit in this abuse, we will suspend its licence.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The meeting actually invades the auditorium, the shouting populace standing in the aisles right next to us, so we become complicit.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The predator seizes opportunities and controls his victim, in effect making her complicit in the crime, perhaps through the fear of exposure.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
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