Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An associate or accomplice, especially in crime.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An accomplice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An accomplice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
accomplice
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Tripping over so much as one cobblestone might put my complice in the hospital.
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Tripping over so much as one cobblestone might put my complice in the hospital.
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Convaincu d'avoir été trahi par son complice pour obtenir la liberté, Blake décapite Dyson avec la guillotine que celui-ci mettait au point.
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And I know alas, some criminal Albanians did seek out violent revenge instead of reporting people they suspected of being complice to Milosevic's crimes to authorities for criminal investigation and I do denounce it and I know that was awful.
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Vous frémirez d'horreur quand vous saurez la situation où vous êtes, quand vous saurez que la force armée est confiée à des mains parricides; quand vous saurez que le chef de la garde nationale a été dénoncé au comité de salut public par le tribunal révolutionnaire comme un complice d'Hébert et un conspirateur infàme.
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Sometimes I think that's more of an issue for many people, mostly women, than how to deal with aggressive feelings constructively and how not to be complice to the abuse at the hands of the henchpeople of Bush or some other idiot.
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She did right by refusing to be complice to torture and by writing her book and speaking out afterward.
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And I think in the past there were not only way more grievances in general and more nasty sexist men but also more female bullies who were complice to patriarchy and verbally abused and indoctrinated girls and other women - just because everything was extremely patriarchal in general.
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But really, I think it's good that Kayla Williams refused to be complice to that and that she bears witness that these things are deadwrong in her book.
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Come molti di voi (?) sapranno, il mio amico (e complice su Ticklebooth) Ajit mantiene un videoblog chiamato Squigglebooth.
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