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complicity

/kuhm-plis-i-tee/US // kəmˈplɪs ɪ ti //UK // (kəmˈplɪsɪtɪ) //

同谋,共谋,合谋,共犯

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural com·plic·i·ties.

    • : the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing: complicity in a crime.

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Examples

  • Justice Minister Gustavo Villatoro suggested that the depth and complexity of the secret burial site pointed to the complicity of more than one person.

  • A submission to, and eventual complicity with racism normalized a dynamic that should not exist.

  • You wrote on Twitter that when people have the power to help but sit idly by, then their silence is complicity.

  • As for Spears, it is a very good thing that we are finally talking about the objectification, infantilization, gaslighting, ridicule and invasions of privacy she’s suffered—and about our own complicity in that suffering.

  • Its supporters, inter alia, pressure American companies to end their complicity with Israeli apartheid by ceasing operations on occupied land.

  • The documents also highlight the apparent complicity by secular law enforcement in keeping some of these offenders out of jail.

  • And we have an amazing complicity, an amazing respect for each other.

  • We were never asked to confront our own complicity as sponsors of the game.

  • What sports pundits rarely bother to do is confront themselves, or their audiences, about their complicity in this pattern.

  • It is a site devoted to ending all privacy and putting everything in public view, with our complicity and cooperation.

  • Neither had the slightest suspicion of the lawyers complicity in the events of the night before.

  • Already, however, had returning shame made everybody unwilling to avow his complicity in the crime.

  • Perhaps he preferred doubt to shocking certainty, as if he could thus escape the remorse attendant upon criminal complicity.

  • Hinde, too, is accused of complicity, and both are taken in chains through the town.

  • Accordingly, it was asserted that the arrested Sinn Feiners had been guilty of complicity in a German plot.