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a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan — especially an unethical or illegal plan- Yes, you are all accomplices to the fall, and yes, we are gone forever.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- He had made me, if not an accomplice, at least an eyewitness to his vengeance!Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Responsible or not, he was equally an accomplice of his detestably mischievous daughter.Henry James -- The American
- In which case, MacQueen knew of the note and of its destruction -in other words, he was either the murderer or an accomplice of the murderer.Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- Russ Allen, a lifelong buddy and accomplice, offered the sound advice of a born writer in numerous late-night calls.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- In the previous weeks, hundreds of his accomplices in the oppression of Panem have been tried and now await their own deaths.Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- Two other accomplices faked a fight and drew the guards' attention while the escapee unwound the rope and threw it up over the fence and down.Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
- It was almost as if he were treating her as an accomplice.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- She was .... an accomplice.Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting
- She and her accomplice will get money for it and be let off besides; they'll make a merit of it—say they found it—knew it—and be evidence against me.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- "Doctor Sikes was Sam Westing's friend, a witness to the will, and his accomplice in this game.Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
- They accused him of having had the pocketbook brought back by an accomplice, by a confederate.Guy de Maupassant -- A Piece of String
- His only accomplice was one who could never give him away, and the grotesque, inconceivable nature of the device only served to make it more effective.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- She was shown this mercy because she was judged an incidental accomplice only, one misled by Kubera, whom she had trusted.Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
- "Fredrik Clinton, you are under arrest as an accomplice to murder, for attempted murder, and for a long list of further crimes," she said.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape, notwithstanding his timid contrivances.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- You can't say he's an accomplice-homicidal lunatics don't have accomplices!Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- When Changó found out, he tracked down his inept accomplice to the foot of a palm tree.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- 'And was the fellow-prisoner his accomplice and a murderer, too?Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- Whether he had any accomplices, or whatever the thing is called in the law?Charles Dickens -- Bleak House