abettor

Example Sentences

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Anyone who isn’t against this drumbeat of unredressed wrong is exposed as a guilty abettor.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2020

“The aider and abettor is legally responsible for the acts of other persons that are the natural and probable consequences of the crime in which he intentionally participated.”

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2019

In the book, Starr depicts Susan McDougal — who served prison time for her conviction — as a disdainful abettor of the Clintons, a designation that baffles her to this day.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2018

Also, the report said Moscow lab director Grigory Rodchenkov is “an aider and abettor of the doping activities.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2015

In fact, I desire thee more as a confidant, than as an abettor; for there is nothing to oppose my happiness, saving the present uncertainty of the relations betwixt ourselves and the Mexicans.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery