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com·plic·it

(kəm-plĭs′ĭt)

adj.

Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: "Presidential handlers and a complicit press corps managed to suppress public awareness" (Andrew P.N. Erdmann).

[Back-formation from complicity.]

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complicit

(ˌkɒmˈplɪsɪt)

adj

involved with others in reprehensible or illegal activity

[C20: back formation from complicity]

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Translations

complice

complicit

[kəmˈplɪsɪt] adj [person] → complice
to be complicit in sth → être complice de qch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

complicit

adj

(= knowing) look, wink, silence → wissend

(= involved) to be complicit in something → an etw (dat) → beteiligt or in etw (acc) → verwickelt sein; he was complicit in allowing it to happen → er war mitverantwortlich dafür, dass es passieren konnte

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