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Complicit

adj

Definitions

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

    "It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit, guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong wordnet

Etymology

Most likely a back-formation from complicity, under the influence of words such as explicit, as though the suffix -ity were composed of -it (from Latin -itus) and -y.

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