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complicit

/kuhm-plis-it/US // kəmˈplɪs ɪt //UK // (ˌkɒmˈplɪsɪt) //

同谋,合谋,共谋,合谋的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.

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Examples

  • With his support, Reagan took action against terrorists and the states that sponsored them, including the bombing of Libya in 1986 after it was found complicit in the bombing of a Berlin disco in which two American servicemen died.

  • What must happen is an in-depth investigation of the Capitol Hill police, which may find some were complicit with the mob.

  • Others suggested that police were perhaps complicit with the insurrectionists, many of whom express pro-police beliefs.

  • It shows how girls are also complicit by dwelling on size themselves – and assuming that it’s linked to sexual performance and masculinity.

  • Some 100,000 Christians from Mosul alone were among those who fled their homes, returning years later to live uneasily alongside Muslim residents who they saw as complicit in the attacks.

  • They are both complicit in this, though my mother is the more egregious offender.

  • After all, doing so would make them complicit in irrationality, which is against their religion.

  • At the age of sixteen these bad guys chase you, often under the amused and complicit watch of policemen.

  • Even the five who the Nazis turned on, however, were complicit with the regime in some fashion.

  • But my silence was not only wrong; I am complicit on some level in nurturing the “rape culture” that we see today in our country.

  • The United States could have accepted the permanent division of Europe, and been complicit in the oppression of others.