Definition of “complicit”

A faint, complicit half-smile eddied round the corners of her mouth.

By continued patronage of places like this, by not complaining, we simply become complicit.

Directly or indirectly, nearly everyone in baseball was complicit.

He was accusing me of being complicit in a murder, or being a murderer, I don't know which.

Humiliating acts in which all who do not condemn them are complicit.

It is suspected that republican terrorists have been complicit in some of this rubbish trafficking.

She thought: It isn't only the Junta that's bad, everyone's complicit in what's happened to Vangelis.

There were many Tutsis still alive, and Gacumbitsi and his cohorts wanted as many Hutus as possible to be complicit in the killing.

We do not say that someone watching the destruction of the World Trade Center on TV is complicit in the hijackers ' acts.