How to Use complicit in a Sentence

complicit

adjective

• The media and Democrats have done their best to avoid covering this, for the simple reason that some of them were complicit.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2017
• The above process is known as artwashing, which has come to widely describe displacement efforts in which the artistic community is tacitly complicit.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 May 2017
• Trump could not have been elected without the complicit silence of mainstream Christian denominations.
  — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 3 May 2017
• So the federal government was complicit in this reverse-redlining in the period leading up to 2008.
  — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• So the federal government was complicit in this reverse-redlining in the period leading up to 2008.
  — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• And all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
• But it’s still viewed as complicit in the soaring death toll in Gaza.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• As if the two of them were complicit in something, a scheme or a love affair.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• But in this case, the mother of the dead man argued that the website was complicit in her son’s death.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Both seemed to take it as gospel that the attacks were real or that the Cuban regime was complicit, or both.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2020
• Who was the most complicit in allowing this hell to evolve?
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2018
• Mr Mnangagwa was complicit in the mass killing of the Ndebele people in the 1980s.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• Now, that's not to say Maxine's complicit in the affair.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 May 2024
• Shame on her sick, sick self, but more shame on the doctors who were complicit in this delusion.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• Here, the Captain is complicit in the Watchman’s suicide as an aide.
  — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2024
• That is not what complicit means, but that is a masterfully polished political answer for someone who, until now, has had no political experience.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 5 Apr. 2017
• As white women, we’ve been told by the patriarchy to sit and look pretty, to be silent and complicit.
  — Margo Price, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
• Woods, who said Henry was complicit with the plan to trick the victim, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 20.
  — Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• And for that, the most powerful man in the world — buoyed by the silent, the pliable, and the complicit — has decided to exact revenge.
  — Nancy Benac, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• The Chiefs did a really good job of shutting down the run against Baltimore, but the Ravens were complicit in that too.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• If one law clerk knows that another clerk did it and assisted in the coverup, the former would be complicit in the breach.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• But, whatever the cause (or causes), the courts have been complicit.
  — Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
• But can there be too much contrition from those who were complicit with the Nazis, and is there such a thing as too much atonement?
  — Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• Thus the United States is complicit in Israel’s war crimes.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• The Marlins were complicit in their own demise Tuesday.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 7 May 2024
• Worse is that the Biden Administration seems to have been complicit in trying to bury the news.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• In most cases the orphanages were said to be complicit.
  — Rosebell Kagumire, Quartz Africa, 24 Aug. 2020
• So one suspects that the Kurds’ supporters, either the US or the Israelis, are complicit in the rebel advance.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
• While pardons extended to broad categories of people are rare, the approach has been used in the past to avoid the Justice Department becoming complicit in moral quagmires of the federal government's own making.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025