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.
• 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
• No false tone of healing or hope is sounded at the end; instead, the circles of complicity keep widening.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• In a poem, one hopes to create an experience in the reader: in this case, the hope of the poem is to help the reader see their own complicity.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• Serbs have fallen back on lies and self-delusion, Suljagić said, to avoid confronting the horrors of the war and their own complicity.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• What won’t change: the complicity between artist and sitter.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
• The court said Natale-Hjorth, then 18, should stand trial again because there was not enough evidence of his complicity in the killing.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Michael Cohen admitted his complicity and paid the price by doing the time.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
• Ronald Johnson, 20, is charged with complicity to murder in the shooting.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2021
• For many years, that moment was viewed by some critics as complicity.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 June 2021
• But Jones’s approach—take instances of monstrous violence that the right bears a degree of complicity for and make up lies to blame Democrats—is not on the decline.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• To signal broad international opposition to Maduro’s allies’ complicity in the regime’s fraud and repression, concerned countries should tighten and synchronize their sanctions.
  — Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024