complicity

Definitions

com- (together) + plic (fold) + -ity (state) = "the state of being folded together (in wrongdoing)." Complicity is the abstract noun behind accomplice: being wrapped up in the same crime as someone else.

Common Collocations

• 1.accused of complicity被指控同谋
• 2.complicity in参与……（罪行）
• 3.tacit complicity默许的同谋

Example Sentences

• 1.

  He was accused of complicity in the cover-up.

• 2.

  Their silence amounted to complicity.