complicit

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  1. adjective Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship.

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  • I was more than complicit -- I was just as bad as he was. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
  • We will be held as complicit, and as culpable, as the citizens of the country whose leaders sat in the dock at Nuremberg. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • For all who were complicit, there is culpability, degrees of negligence, naiveté and sorrow aplenty to spread around. —  The Martha's Vineyard Times News Headlines
  • "The SWC has become unintentionally complicit, and therefore American Jews are complicit, in this unholy project." —  Articles
  • If they were complicit, and Madoff has proof, or testifies, or both. .well .. —  Latest Articles
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