complicity
Example Sentences
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It unites the teller and those he is assured will laugh in complicity in its viciousness.
He said such an operation was complex, likely requiring the use of a device such as a USB key to install the software, a move that would need "complicity within the crew".
From Barron's
Art invites complicity, and in the theater, audiences are in on the game.
From Los Angeles Times
Social movements are now better positioned to pressure government officials, by raising the political and reputational costs of complicity with crimes against humanity.
From Los Angeles Times
One official who was involved and spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid facing retribution said they were disgusted by the request’s “brazenness and the high-handed expectation of complicity.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
