complicity

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The indictment refers to responsibility for collective complicity, which is not an offence covered by Swedish law.

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  1. noun Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or a crime.

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  • Without proof of her complicity, there was no case against Elizabeth, but Renard could not understand why Mary and her Council were so at pains to find direct proof. —  TheChildrenof
  • Wherever Melisande Shah-rizai had gone, and whoever had aided her, their complicity was buried deep enough that it was never uncovered. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • The level of perceived U.S. complicity is a constantly moving target, but as Israel's offensive drags on, the level of anger from the —  The Moderate Voice
  • The only thing that will straightened this duplicity and complicity will be the ultimate crash. —  Dissident Voice
  • The group is accused of aggravated robbery with various degrees of complicity, as well as acts of contempt against a religion, and criminal association under the law against organized crime. —  radio.indymedia.org
 

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  1. from French complicité (= Spanish complicidad = Portuguese complicidade = Italian complicità), from Middle Latin *complicita(t-)s, from Late Latin complex (complic-), participant: see complice.
 

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/kəmˈplɪsəti/
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