All 6 Uses
complicity
in
The House of the Spirits
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- She was waiting for him seated in her chair, holding Miguel's hand, the two of them deep in a mutual complicity from which, as always, Nicolas felt excluded.†
Chpt 7 *complicity = act of helping in a crime or offense
- "Mama, you have to help Amanda," Jaime pleaded, with the certainty that came from their complicity in matters such as this.†
Chpt 7
- But as she turned around, Blanca could have sworn she caught a wink of complicity between her husband and the cook.†
Chpt 8
- Alba too remembered the complicity of those trips to the country holding on to her grandfather's hand, the jaunts behind him in the saddle of his horse, the sunsets in the vast pastures, the long nights beside the living-room fireplace telling ghost stories and drawing pictures.†
Chpt 9
- They embraced with the desperation of a parting and slipped down to their refuge suffocating with complicity.†
Chpt 11
- She went by me like a gust of wind in her horrible long cotton skirts, with her incredible green hair like Rosa's, busy in all sorts of mysterious chores that she carried out with the complicity of her mother.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(complicit) act of helping in a crime or offense
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)