Complicity Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Complicity

conspiracy
An agreement or combination by two or more individuals to commit a crime or to commit a lawful act by unlawful means. Making the agreement is a crime, even if the unlawful act that is planned is never performed, but most states require overt action by one of the conspirators to further the conspiracy before the making of the agreement becomes criminal. A conspiracy to harm someone is also a tort. Also called partnership in crime. See also tortfeasor, concert of action rule, accessory, accomplice, aid and abet, attempt, connivance, conscious parallelism, and solicitation.
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confederacy
(Historical) the informal name for the Confederate States of America, the collection of American states that seceded from the United States in 1861, and fought against the Union in the American Civil War.
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collusion
In divorce law, in states that do not have no-fault divorce, an agreement between husband and wife to suppress facts, manufacture false evidence, or to do some act that would create or appear to create a ground for divorce. If discovered, the agreement will cause the divorce to be denied.
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Antonyms for Complicity

ignorance
The definition of ignorance is being unaware, uneducated or unknowledgeable.
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innocence
Lack of worldliness or sophistication; naiveté.
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refusal
(Civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.
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noninvolvement
Failure or refusal to become involved, especially in the affairs of another nation; nonintervention.
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Words Related to Complicity

intrigue
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
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duplicity
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brutality
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complicit
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collude
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barbarity
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cooperation
Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.
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Complicity Sentence Examples

  • In the following February, however, Midhat was dismissed and banished for supposed complicity in the murder of Abdul Aziz.

  • A false accusation of complicity in an assassination, and the intrigues of members of his own Company, clouded his last months, and on the 18th of July 1697 he passed away.

  • When the cortes met, on the 29th of September, the opposition accused King Carlos of complicity in grave financial scandals.

  • In other respects, the legislative achievements of the government were not great; and the time of parliament was largely occupied in devising rules for the conduct of its business, which the obstructive attitude of the Irish members made necessary, and in discussing the charges brought against the Nationalist party by The Times, of complicity in the Phoenix Park murders.

  • Broad Street contains the ruins of Mar's Work, the palace built by John Erskine, 1st (or 6th) earl of Mar, about 1570, according to tradition, out of the stones of Cambuskenneth Abbey; the old town house, erected in 1701 instead of that in which John Hamilton, the last Roman Catholic archbishop of St Andrews, was hanged for alleged complicity in the murders of Darnley and the regent Moray; the town cross, restored in 1891, and the house which was, as a mural tablet says, the "nursery of James VI.

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