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complicit

adjective as in associated with unethical activity

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That kept them out of the oversight of city and county agencies whose officials were complicit in the deportations.

Later, she takes revenge on her entire clan — whom she considers complicit in keeping her committed at Arkham — by gassing them, strutting around her family’s mansion in a yellow gown and a gas mask.

The latest example of this came when it was accused of being complicit - as Uganda's Observer newspaper put it - in the "brazen cross-border abductions" of 36 Ugandan opposition supporters in July.

From BBC

“We do not trust the empty words of terrorist or complicit governments and neither should you.”

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Owen’s bedraggled Blanche, too exhausted to keep up with her own lies, seemed complicit in her own demise.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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