How to Use complicit in a Sentence

complicit

adjective

• Maduro’s inner circle has been reduced to only the most loyal and complicit.
  — Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024
• But now, as the culture engages in a deep reckoning with this problem, that muted response feels wrong, if not complicit.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
• And Incognito has claimed that Martin, too, was complicit in the boys-will-be-boys culture.
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• At the same time, how many in that very same room, even some who were applauding, have been complicit in all the ugliness that continues to be exhumed?
  — Manohla Dargis, A.o. Scott and Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• Others are often complicit if merely by their silence or inaction.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2018
• Nearby are signs that protest the restaurant: accusing it of being complicit in corruption.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
• For some students, especially students of color, teachers are complicit in over-policing.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2018
• The only way to sustain the hysteria is to denounce the un-hysterical as complicit bystanders to the alleged scandal.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
• The food industry, and its constant stream of new products and nutrition gimmicks, is complicit in this confusion, Katz says.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
• Republican leaders are wholly complicit in this, as are conservative leaders outside the party proper.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The petition claimed that those films and filmmakers were in some way complicit in what is unfolding in Gaza.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024