complicity

complicity
complicitous, adj.
/keuhm plis"i tee/, n., pl. complicities.
the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing: complicity in a crime.
[1650-60; < LL complic-, s. of complex COMPLICE + -ITY]
Syn. collusion, intrigue, implication, connivance.

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