Definition of Complicit

1. Adjective. Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Complicit

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complicit

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Literary usage of Complicit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana by Carol Pier (2002)
"These exporting corporations have therefore benefited from and, Human Rights Watch believes, are complicit in labor rights abuses on these supplier ..."

2. Studies in the Theory of Human Society by Franklin Henry Giddings (1922)
"Already a complicit ego, made so by gregariousness, he now becomes a socialized ego, made so by preferential association, a product of the consciousness of ..."

3. The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"Human Rights Watch also considers that those institutions which have agreed to finance Phase II (set to begin in 1999) will be complicit in human rights ..."

4. Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels by Human Rights Watch/Asia, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1995)
"Suspensions, transfers or public apologies for complicit law enforcement officials is not sufficient. 5) All laws which can lead to the prosecution of all ..."

5. Empowerment Through Economic Transformation by Meshack M. Khosa (2001)
"Hence apartheid- era foreign lenders to South African private sector borrowers were complicit in maintaining funding flows to the state, and vice versa; ..."

6. Human Rights Watch World Report 1997 by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch Staff (1996)
"Local police were often complicit in such abuses, either by failing to provide protection to the targeted group or by actively participating in the violence ..."

7. Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology by Ad Graafland, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, George Baird (2006)
"The museum, the ideal of gathering and displaying of knowledge for the edification of mankind, is complicit in this 'compulsion'. ..."

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