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complicit

adjective as in associated with unethical activity

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With his support, Reagan took action against terrorists and the states that sponsored them, including the bombing of Libya in 1986 after it was found complicit in the bombing of a Berlin disco in which two American servicemen died.

What must happen is an in-depth investigation of the Capitol Hill police, which may find some were complicit with the mob.

Others suggested that police were perhaps complicit with the insurrectionists, many of whom express pro-police beliefs.

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It shows how girls are also complicit by dwelling on size themselves – and assuming that it’s linked to sexual performance and masculinity.

Some 100,000 Christians from Mosul alone were among those who fled their homes, returning years later to live uneasily alongside Muslim residents who they saw as complicit in the attacks.

They are both complicit in this, though my mother is the more egregious offender.

After all, doing so would make them complicit in irrationality, which is against their religion.

At the age of sixteen these bad guys chase you, often under the amused and complicit watch of policemen.

Even the five who the Nazis turned on, however, were complicit with the regime in some fashion.

But my silence was not only wrong; I am complicit on some level in nurturing the “rape culture” that we see today in our country.

The United States could have accepted the permanent division of Europe, and been complicit in the oppression of others.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to complicit, such as: conniving, deceitful, duplicitous, scheming, adept, and calculating.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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