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.
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Goslyn’s wife, Jessie L. Goslyn, had pleaded guilty to complicity to murder for luring her husband there.
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But the distant, intellectualized approach keeps us from feeling any complicity with Katherine.
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The original Magnitsky Act leveled U.S. financial sanctions on 18 Russian officials and individuals suspected of complicity in Magnitsky’s prosecution, imprisonment and death.
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The movie also does a poor job defining Clare’s degree of complicity in the popularity-for-death exchange implied in her use of the box — on that point, Wish Upon is wishy-washy.
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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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Doing so would be to admit their complicity in bringing a leader as inept and warped as Trump to office.
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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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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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