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complicity
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com·plic·i·ty

noun \kəm-ˈpli-s(ə-)tē\
plural com·plic·i·ties

Definition of COMPLICITY

1
: association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act
2
: an instance of complicity
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Examples of COMPLICITY

  1. There's no proof of her complicity in the murder.
  2. He acted with his brother's complicity.

First Known Use of COMPLICITY

circa 1656

Related to COMPLICITY

Synonyms
collusion, connivance, conspiracy

Other Legal Terms

actionable, alienable, carceral, chattel, decedent, larceny, malfeasance, modus operandi

Rhymes with COMPLICITY

basicity, causticity, centricity, chronicity, clonicity, conicity, cyclicity, ethnicity, facticity, felicity, lubricity, mendicity, plasticity, publicity, rhythmicity, seismicity, simplicity, spasticity, sphericity, tonicity, toxicity, triplicity

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