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Definition of complicity
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1 : association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act arrested for complicity in the crime
2 : an instance of complicity The two share a complicity she calls fraternal. — Joan Dupont
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Examples of complicity in a Sentence
There's no proof of her complicity in the murder.
He acted with his brother's complicity.
Recent Examples of complicity from the Web
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Johnson was charged with complicity to murder and tampering with physical evidence.
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Rights campaigners also want France’s new government to open archives expected to reveal complicity between French officials—not only bankers—and the génocidaires.
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NOPD public information personnel did not explain Thursday what led police to accuse Herzog of complicity in the man's death.
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Mitchell said Carpenter was charged with murder, and Harris and a fourth suspect, Lyndia L. Yarnell, are charged with complicity to murder and robbery.
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Together, these responses have changed the cost-benefit analysis for officials' complicity in human-rights crimes.
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The prosecutor will determine whether the second suspect should be charged with complicity to theft.
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And, so far, the response to this, across the board, has been supine complicity in whatever fiction the White House is selling on a particular day.
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That man, Oskar Gröning, 96, was sentenced in July 2015 to four years in prison for complicity in the murder of 300,000 prisoners.
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Origin and Etymology of complicity
see complice
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COMPLICITY Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of complicity for English Language Learners
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: the act of helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way
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