How to Use complicit in a Sentence

complicit

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• Woods, who said Henry was complicit with the plan to trick the victim, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 20.
  — Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• More troubling is how Beauty and the Beast appears to end up showing society as being complicit.
  — Jenna Dorsi, Teen Vogue, 27 Oct. 2017
• Florida’s defense, definitely complicit in the team’s first-half struggles, delivered its best stop of the game, a three-and-out to force a quick punt.
  — Ryan Young, ajc, 7 Oct. 2017
• Both are weapons manufacturers that are heavily complicit in genocide.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2024
• Some of the windfall was used to improve the quality and efficiency of domestic mills, but much of it was diverted to foreign steelmakers to keep them complicit.
  — Bill Lane, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
• Stewart believes that every home run begins with a pitch, and as major league hitters grow bigger and stronger, Stewart believes that the men standing on the mound are complicit in the home run uptick.
  — John Walters, Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2017
• Government institutions such as police forces are powerless or complicit in gang activities, leaving many young people with nowhere to turn for safety.
  — Rachel Anspach, Slate Magazine, 9 Oct. 2017
• By erecting anti-imperialism and equality as supreme values, too many leftists have been complicit in tyranny and corruption.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• And throughout it all, too many in our national media ... their corporate owners ... and their stockholders ... act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Oct. 2017
• These laws freeze the assets of and deny entry to Russian officials who were complicit in Magnitsky’s death and other human-rights abuses.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• While Republicans may be making the loudest noise right now to allow their pharma overlords to continue to make obscene profits, the Democrats are complicit and just as guilty.
  — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Sep. 2017
• And all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
• But it’s still viewed as complicit in the soaring death toll in Gaza.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• As if the two of them were complicit in something, a scheme or a love affair.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• But in this case, the mother of the dead man argued that the website was complicit in her son’s death.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Both seemed to take it as gospel that the attacks were real or that the Cuban regime was complicit, or both.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2020
• Who was the most complicit in allowing this hell to evolve?
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2018
• Mr Mnangagwa was complicit in the mass killing of the Ndebele people in the 1980s.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• Now, that's not to say Maxine's complicit in the affair.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 May 2024
• Shame on her sick, sick self, but more shame on the doctors who were complicit in this delusion.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• Here, the Captain is complicit in the Watchman’s suicide as an aide.
  — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2024
• As white women, we’ve been told by the patriarchy to sit and look pretty, to be silent and complicit.
  — Margo Price, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
• And for that, the most powerful man in the world — buoyed by the silent, the pliable, and the complicit — has decided to exact revenge.
  — Nancy Benac, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• The Chiefs did a really good job of shutting down the run against Baltimore, but the Ravens were complicit in that too.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• If one law clerk knows that another clerk did it and assisted in the coverup, the former would be complicit in the breach.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• But, whatever the cause (or causes), the courts have been complicit.
  — Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
• But can there be too much contrition from those who were complicit with the Nazis, and is there such a thing as too much atonement?
  — Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• Thus the United States is complicit in Israel’s war crimes.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• That the biologists had been complicit, aware of their role, which was important, Old Jim believed.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024