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assist or encourage (usually in some wrongdoing)- But Michael was different, because the white world had so unusually aided and abetted his rise.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- People inthe townships were accusing them of aiding and abetting the violence.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- It is vital that we spend our tax dollars on helping Arizonans and not aid and abet illegal aliens.Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
- Do you know the universal penalty for aiding and abetting such a killer?Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- I've called devoted Desi to my aid (and abet).Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- I had aided and abetted social backwardness ....Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- The man who could not be discourteous to a ground-squirrel had sat in the courthouse abetting the cause of grubby-minded little men.Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
- Miss Ramirez, that had better not have been you abetting these hoodlums.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- She is guilty of aiding and abetting an enemy of the gods.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- I guess we are aiding and abetting a felony, Watson?Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Not telling her is tantamount to aiding and abetting the enemy.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- Then the daring plotter was to be surrounded and caught red-handed, in the very act of aiding and abetting royalists, who were traitors to the republic.Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- I wouldn't have aided or abetted an attempt on even HIS life for anything.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- You're confessing that you're an accomplice who's aiding and abetting a deserter?Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- All of these people had, in the past, aided and abetted Moody in his fight against me, but they had' acted out of what was to them reasonable motives.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- And so she abetted our scheme and kept my father ignorant much longer than would otherwise have been possible.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- She had no right to dash away from your party, and Miss Derek had no right to abet her.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- Aiding and abetting anyone wanted for murder is a serious offence.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- They abetted each other in amazement.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- How ill agrees it with your gravity To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave, Abetting him to thwart me in my mood!William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors