complicit

Adjective

Meaning

complicit (comparative more complicit, superlative most complicit)

Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.

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The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. Azar Nafisi

I add to the culture of invisibility becoming complicit with it. Margaret Cho

We are all responsible. We are all complicit. White T-shirts catch the light. What matters is what we then do with that light. (The peace activists wore white t-shirts during their protests.) Leymah Gbowee

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' Hill Harper

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. Shelley Morrison

I wasn't gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common. Ned Vizzini

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