complicity
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Still, the live witness accounts pose a powerful rebuke to the current wave of historic revisionism in several eastern European countries to play down their own wartime complicity. — Washington Post, "As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle," 11 Apr. 2018 Still, the live witness accounts pose a powerful rebuke to the current wave of historic revisionism in several eastern European countries to play down their own wartime complicity. — Aron Heller, Fox News, "As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle," 11 Apr. 2018 As the movie heads toward the end, Paterno can no longer fully deny to himself his own complicity. — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, "A legend crumbles in HBO’s ‘Paterno’," 3 Apr. 2018 And like the rest of the new campaign's stars, Philipps is no stranger to speaking out on body image, unrealistic beauty standards, and Hollywood's complicity. — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, "Busy Philipps on How She's Teaching Her Daughters Body Positivity in the Age of Facetune," 31 Jan. 2019 Their job is to exist in the liminal space between complicity and opposition, at once being part of the establishment and challenging it. — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, "Why Michelle Wolf and Father Pat Conroy are so important.," 30 Apr. 2018 Last September, L'Oréal fired its first transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf, for her comments about white people's complicity in racial violence. — Evelyn Wang, Teen Vogue, "Amena Khan Wears Hijab in L'Oréal Paris Hair Campaign," 17 Jan. 2018 But the structure of the dinner and, more importantly, the unifying presence of the comedian at the roast both risks complicity and allows directness. — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, "Why Michelle Wolf and Father Pat Conroy are so important.," 30 Apr. 2018 Although Townes, according to authorities, was identified as the shooter by the other two passengers who had remained in the car with Glasgow, the pastor is still being charged as an accomplice in the case under Alabama’s broad complicity statute. — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, "Exclusive: Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, Beloved Voting-Rights Organizer, Speaks Out About Capital Murder Charges He Faces in Alabama: ‘I Am Innocent’," 27 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'complicity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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A Brief History of 'Complicit'
A Brief History of 'Complicit'
It literally means 'folded together'
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The first known use of complicity was circa 1656
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