亚洲网紅露点

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complicit

[ kuhm-plis-it ]

adjective

  1. choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.


complicit

/ 藢办蓲尘藞辫濒瑟蝉瑟迟 /

adjective

  1. involved with others in reprehensible or illegal activity
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of complicit1

First recorded in 1855鈥60; back formation from complicity
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of complicit1

C20: back formation from complicity
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Government forces and thousands of fighters 鈥 including from Sunni jihadist factions 鈥 beat back the loyalists but also hunted down Alawites, who share Assad鈥檚 religion and were seen by many Syrians as complicit in his policies.

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Jake said the protests were "about showing people all around the world that with small groups of organised collective groups of people, you can occupy complicit institutions".

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In a smart detail, Mendelsohn鈥檚 unnamed racist shoots the other white guy in the store a complicit wink.

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The sluggish response by the Department of Justice to pursue Trump on a wide variety of crimes, coupled with a complicit or inept judiciary gave the virus time to explode.

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Three of them have good cause to fear the law; all seven are complicit in benefits fraud.

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