Definition of "complicit" []

• Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship. (adjective)

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• "Any evidence that Obama and the current FBI and CIA are under threat and must remain complicit in this murder?"
• "Human rights lawyers and NGOs have expressed concern that the UK's intelligence agents could remain complicit in torture after consulting ministers, in line with the new guidance."
• "This lie of the complacent and complicit is the latter."