MEANING
Sharing involvement in or responsibility for an improper act.
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- complicit in deception
- complicit silence
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His silence made him complicit in the deception.
The investigators asked which officials were complicit.
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- complicit
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more complicit; superlative most complicit where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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