Complicit Definition
kəm-plĭsĭt
adjective
Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity.
American Heritage
Having or showing complicity; implicated.
Webster's New World
Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
Wiktionary
Origin of Complicit
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Back-formation from complicity, most likely, hence from French complicité, from complice (“partner, accomplice"), from Latin complex, complicem (“partner").
From Wiktionary
Back-formation from complicity
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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