Meaning of COMPLICITY
| Pronunciation: | | kum'plisitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense |
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| | See Also: | | guilt, guiltiness | |
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| | Definition: | |  Complicity
A series of savage, punishment-fits-the-crime assaults carried out by a self-styled avenger seems to implicate Cameron Colley, a journalist at an Edinburgh newspaper. Detained by the police as a suspect, Cameron protests that he`s being set up, though he can`t hide a certain admiration for the avenger`s violent justice. Cameron knows that the only way to prove his innocence is to lead the police to the vigilante himself--a good plan until it becomes clear to him that the culprit is uncomfortably close to home. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Complicities}. [F.
complicit['e].]
The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
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| | Related Terms: | | arraignability, arraignableness, artifice, association, bipartisanship, blameworthiness, bloody hands, burden, cabal, censurability, censurableness, chargeability, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complot, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, condominium, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, contribution, contrivance, contriving, cooperation, cooperativeness, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy, counterplot, covin, criminality, culpability, deep-laid plot, dirty hands, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, engagement, engineering, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, finagling, finesse, frame-up, game, guilt, guiltiness, guilty conscience, harmony, having a part, impeachability, impeachableness, implication, inculpation, indictability, indictableness, intrigue, involvement, joining of forces, joint chairmanship, joint control, joint effort, joint operation, joint ownership, joint tenancy, little game, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, mass action, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, onus, partaking, participation, partnership, peccancy, plot, plotting, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, red-handedness, reprehensibility, reproachableness, reprovability, reprovableness, rigging, scheme, schemery, scheming, septet, sextet, sharing, solidarity, stratagem, suffrage, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, trick, trio, triumvirate, troika, underplot, united action, voting, web of intrigue, wire-pulling |
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