How to Use complicit in a Sentence

complicit

adjective

• But her suit is the first to name a club as complicit.
  — Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
• To be silent about this is to be complicit.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
• And all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
• No doubt, the Maduro regime is complicit in the drug trade.
  — Javier Corrales, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
• To be silent in the face of antisemitism is to be complicit.
  — Brian Siegal, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
• As if the two of them were complicit in something, a scheme or a love affair.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• But it’s still viewed as complicit in the soaring death toll in Gaza.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• Grief and shame from being complicit in some minor war crimes?
  — Caitlin Starling, People.com, 19 May 2025
• But brands—and their home states—must do more to avoid being complicit in these abuses.
  — Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 31 Jan. 2025
• Governments are silent or complicit and this has to change.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 14 Jan. 2026
• In some cases, would-be students were complicit in the scam.
  — John Wisely, Freep.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• Shame on her sick, sick self, but more shame on the doctors who were complicit in this delusion.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• In this case, the art and the artist are both complicit and deserving of refusal.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
• If Trump is to blame, Congress is at the very least complicit.
  — Wes Zebrowski, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
• This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2020
• However, there were many more leaders who were complicit in the farce.
  — Melissa Daimler, Fortune, 10 May 2022
• But in this case, the mother of the dead man argued that the website was complicit in her son’s death.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Obama was indeed complicit in the troubling events of our times.
  — The Editors, National Review, 7 Nov. 2023
• Each character in the film is complicit, no one escapes blame.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• And there is a complicit silence and hiding [in the media].
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The people who are complicit need to be held accountable.
  — Kevin Fixler may 3, Idaho Statesman, 3 May 2026
• Both seemed to take it as gospel that the attacks were real or that the Cuban regime was complicit, or both.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• Remaining silent about this abuse is complicit.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
• But, whatever the cause (or causes), the courts have been complicit.
  — Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
• Is scholarship doomed to be complicit in the violence done in its name?
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 25 Oct. 2017
• Yes, the transfer portal is complicit in the power shift to the power leagues.
  — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
• As white women, we’ve been told by the patriarchy to sit and look pretty, to be silent and complicit.
  — Margo Price, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
• Keenan said those who committed abuse should face jail time and those who were complicit should be removed from the priesthood.
  — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2023
• Some school employees have been fired for refusing to be complicit.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• In a darker version of events, the actions of some may have been complicit, even criminal.
  — The Economist, 25 June 2020