complicity

Noun

Meaning

The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

association confederacy front cabal whitewash agreement plot concert scheme involvement cooperation participation partnership collaboration trick

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

communication conversation refusal brightness authenticity confession

Show all antonyms

Hypernyms

guilt guiltiness

Related terms

accomplice

Phrases with the word

complicity in a crime complicity in the crime

Derivatives

complicities

Anagrams

polymictic

Examples

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. Ralph Waldo Emerson

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic. Albert Camus

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. Paul Bourget

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. Tahar Ben Jelloun

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. Bell hooks

Silence is the voice of complicity. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

complicitness complicitous complicitousness complicity in a crime complicity in the crime complied