How to Use complicity in a Sentence

complicity

noun

• There's no proof of her complicity in the murder.
• He acted with his brother's complicity.
• There’s an acknowledgment of complicity and failure and a true desire to do better.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 July 2020
• The attorney for the student who is now a doctor says the account shows the complicity of the university.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2020
• The 14-year-old girl also faces charges of complicity and tampering with evidence.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
• The concept of complicity has become clearer to a greater percentage of white Americans in the past several weeks, Gilbert said.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 23 June 2020
• On Blackout Tuesday, all kinds of companies posted black squares filled with white words, promising progress as well as acknowledging their own complicity.
  — Ayesha McGowan, Outside Online, 6 July 2020
• The appeals being dropped allows for prosecution of other former Nazis under a legal precedent of complicity.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2020
• Or is white women’s solidarity conditional, offered only so long as white women can claim innocence of their complicity in white supremacy?
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020
• She was arrested on July 2 and later charged with six federal crimes for her alleged complicity in procuring children for Epstein.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2020
• Each day consisted of simple yet direct questions and journal prompts, written to help white people gain a deeper understanding of their own racial biases and their complicity in white supremacy.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 25 June 2020
• And to those with the power to help and yet sit idly by, your silence is complicity.
  — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2021
• Of course, the show teases us, all the while, with the prospect of her complicity—if not outright guilt—in Merritt’s killing.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
• Religious hypocrisy and the complicity of the church are also key themes in the novel.
  — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Just like Bernie, that swindler could not have done it without a big bank’s complicity.
  — Annie Nova, CNBC, 28 July 2024
• Now guilty of complicity to murder, in Season 2 their main goal is just to stay alive.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
• The explorations of the varying lines of complicity don’t end there.
  — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• In her view, the problem was Gordon's lack of leadership and the board's complicity.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2024
• But legal challenges to their complicity are in the works.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2021
• But the most recent case of complicity lies with Hochul, Boylan said.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2021
• She was charged with theft and a warrant for complicity to theft was entered for her boyfriend, a 21-year-old Cleveland man.
  — cleveland, 23 May 2022
• The report, however, cleared the French of complicity in the genocide.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• Philpot's wife, 34-year-old Shana Philpot, faces complicity charges.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 14 June 2022
• Many of the points of negligence or complicity that drive The U.S. and the Holocaust will also be familiar.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2022
• Despite their complicity, the ChewCorp brass were able to escape the worst effects of the weather.
  — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2020
• Webb is far from the only figure NASA has revered who could be accused of complicity.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2021
• For Natale-Hjorth, the appeals court was ordered to look at the charge of complicity to commit murder.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2024
• This is also the case for 10 of the other defendants who are on trial for complicity in the murders.
  — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Alcott teaches us the danger of complicity and the importance of forging your own path.
  — Ivelisse Rodriguez, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
• The ruling – and the fact that the crimes in the warrant are potentially ongoing – raises the risk of complicity for countries that supply weapons to Israel and could pave the way for sanctions against Israel.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025