abet - use in sentences

Object

  • suicide: It is, and should rightly remain, also illegal to aid and abet a suicide.
  • counsel: Try not to aid, abet, counsel or procure dishonesty.
  • offense: Anyone who fails to repeat it abets the offense.
  • commission: It is illegal to publish information that can be construed as intending to aid or abet the commission of the above offenses.

Modifying Another Word

  • actually: Why not astound the secretary abet actually paying them?

Preposition: by

  • government: The WTO's critics are abetted by governments for whom it is also a convenient scapegoat.
  • press: Abetted by a vociferous right-wing press, conservatives have been waging a savage ' culture war ' on Austria's intelligentsia for decades.
  • convulsion: This was abetted by the intellectual convulsions on the academic and political left about the causes and consequences of crime.
  • councilor: The fact is officers have gone from one disaster to another and they've been aided and abetted by some councilors.

Preposition: in

  • murder: Stobie had been accused of aiding and abetting in the murder of Pat Finucane, a Belfast solicitor killed on 12 February 1989.

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