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.
• Lethem himself sees complicity as perhaps the major theme of his novels.
  — Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• And now their complicity in that groupthink largely gets forgotten.
  — John Loftus, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
• Boucheron’s short book is based on a series of radio talks and retains a spoken voice that constantly seeks complicity and dramatic effect.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• Stand-ins for those of us streaming the film, their responses force us to acknowledge our own complicity in the girls’ objectification.
  — Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
• Clarke’s project was to investigate themes of exploitation and complicity in filmmaking.
  — Sarah Cowan, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2020
• The actual history of the Trump era is all about Republican complicity.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020
• Left unsaid by Tapper was at what point, exactly, the balance of complicity in crimes against humanity tips toward harsh consequences.
  — Eoin Higgins, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2020
• The video was a harsh indictment of Kanders’s attempts to profit off violence and to hide his complicity behind the walls of the very museum in which the video was presented.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 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
• 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
• The Harvard Strike in the spring of 1969 emerged out of what we students perceived as the university’s complicity in the Vietnam War.
  — Wendell Wallach, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2022
• Even if Trump is defeated at the ballot box, the stain of complicity will forever taint the Supreme Court and our country.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• But the object of the campus encampments was a portfolio, a set of policies, the idiocies and lethal complicities of bureaucracy and elite opinion.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2024
• Telegram users may have reason to fear after French authorities threw the book at Durov, charging him with complicity in crimes that take place on the app, including the sharing of child pornography and the trading of narcotics.
  — Josh Axelrod, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024