complicit
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 9
Definition of complicit
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
“It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit, guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues, […]”
“"I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."”
“Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.”
“I have been critical of the RDG in the past for merely being a cypher for government announcements, but the failure of its members to make a stand on this issue and not be complicit in the Government's subterfuge is a shocking indictment of their failure to protect the industry.”
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Etymology
Most likely a back-formation from complicity, under the influence of words such as explicit, as though the suffix -ity were composed of -it (from Latin -itus) and -y.
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