Sample Sentences forcomplicity (editor-reviewed)
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She is accused of being complicit in the crime.complicit = guilty of helping
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Many suspect the complicity of top officials.complicity = guilt as helpers in wrongdoing
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Rather than cherish that medal, Madame, you should regard it as a symbol of your unwitting complicity with this despot who worked to death and brutalized and eventually exterminated thousands and thousands of African peoples. (source)complicity = guilt as an accomplice in a crime
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On the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball's complicity with Jones. (source)complicity = guilt as an accomplice
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I couldn't tell anyone. That was almost the worst bit. I was now complicit in the Traynors' secret. (source)complicit = guilty of helping in wrongdoing
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Silas was supposed to break in and steal the keystone from you in Château Villette—thus removing you from the equation without hurting you, and exonerating me from any suspicion of complicity. (source)complicity = involvement in a wrongdoing
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Hearing him tell me of his suffering--and my complicity--is the single most humiliating experience of my life. (source)complicity = act of helping in a crime or offense
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The entire Hill is complicit in our embrace.† (source)
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If I glanced toward her, she'd smile complicitly, enjoying this game of ours.† (source)
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Accusation or resignation or complicity.† (source)
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Several months had passed since Gabriel was to have assumed control of the Office, and even the prime minister, who had been complicit in the delay, was losing patience.† (source)
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I wonder what you'll name my sin: Complicity?† (source)
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His lordship emerged to meet him and the two gentlemen appeared to exchange complicit glances before disappearing together into the drawing room.† (source)
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The man had been innocent of any complicity in attempting to create a nuclear holocaust.† (source)
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Among them was that Marilyn Monroe had had an affair with Bobby Kennedy as well as JFK, and that Bobby was complicit in Monroe's death.† (source)
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I've heard the long sigh go up, from around me, the sigh like air coming out of an air mattress, I've seen Aunt Lydia place her hand over the mike, to stifle the other sounds coming from behind her, I've leaned forward to touch the rope in front of me, in time with the others, both hands on it, the rope hairy, sticky with tar in the hot sun, then placed my hand on my heart to show my unity with the Salvagers and my consent, and my complicity in the death of this woman.† (source)
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