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Example sentences for "complicity"

Lexicographically close words:
complicates; complicating; complication; complications; complices; complied; complies; compliment; complimental; complimentary
  1. I laid them before her, when a scene ensued which revealed the blindness of my folly in all its hideous hopelessness: she accused me of complicity in her divorce, and deception in regard to my own fortune.

  2. The following passages seem to give a true account of the measure of the complicity of Russell and his friends with the Rye House Plot.

  3. The trial excited great interest partly owing to the youth of the prisoner, and on a question being raised as to the degree of complicity necessary to constitute his guilt, he was acquitted.

  4. The three murderers were tried and the two men sentenced to lifelong imprisonment, but the dog, as the chief culprit, without whose complicity the crime could not have been committed, was condemned to death.

  5. Also the sentence of confiscation pronounced nearly a month later on the six pigs of the said sow for complicity in her crime p.

  6. Also the sentence of confiscation pronounced nearly a month later on the six pigs of the said sow for complicity in her crime.

  7. She had prepared for that question, had settled her answer beforehand; even with any real reason to suspect Lyttleton of complicity in something underhand, she would not have betrayed him to this man--if to anybody.

  8. As to that, had she not been guilty of active complicity in the greater crime?

  9. But the tragic narrative swept all these supports from him and left him solitary to face the charge of indirect complicity in murder.

  10. It was common to examine the entire family of a traitor as to their complicity in his misdeeds, and the option lay with the Pharaoh whether or not they should bear some of his punishment.

  11. Incidentally he remarked that it was to Bradlaugh's credit that he did not disavow a general sympathy with the opinions of his co-defendants, while clearing himself of all complicity in the publications indicted.

  12. A Christian gentleman, understood to be the editor of the local Examiner, rose and warmly repudiated any complicity in this audacious falsehood.

  13. To suggest anything in the shape of complicity would be prejudging the case, but whatever may be the fate of Abel Death his poor family are to be commiserated.

  14. Dick, observing him closely, strove to arrive at some conclusion, apart from the evidence in his possession, with respect to his complicity in the terrible deed.

  15. The longer he brooded upon it the stronger grew his conviction of Dick's complicity in the crime, and the more firmly was he resolved to make the arrest when he had the chance.

  16. No suspicion was entertained of his complicity in the crime, and there was no evidence connecting him with it until Monday night of this week.

  17. It was impossible to bring home to him an accusation of complicity in an outrage which had been carried through with remarkable skill.

  18. His easy laugh had not laughed away the grim fact that he had deceived Loo in such a manner that complicity was practically forced upon an innocent man.

  19. Anyway, there was great grief among the people when she was thrown into jail for supposed complicity in the unproved German plot.

  20. She was hardly out of jail for participation in the rebellion when she was clapped in again for alleged complicity in the never-to-be-proved German plot.

  21. No one could suspect Ernest of complicity with outlaws, and the Fox brothers had never been known to carry a boy with them.

  22. Still the revelation of your complicity in the suppression of the last will would injure your reputation, Mr. Ray.

  23. Footnote 243: Barberini also refers to the reports which were about concerning the complicity of France in the Scotch rebellion.

  24. He was accused of complicity in an obscure attempt (1857) against the life of Napoleon III.

  25. Then King James II came upon the throne, and Spain having gathered sufficient evidence to accuse "Sir Henry" of secret complicity with the pirates, he was discharged, sent to England and spent some years in prison.

  26. That Muriel is innocent of any complicity in their plot, whatever it may be, I feel convinced.

  27. Colonel Smirnoff has already been relieved of his post as Governor of Kajana, and many of the guards are under arrest for complicity in the plot to allow the woman to escape.

  28. Machiavelli's strong condemnation of conspiracies may get its edge from his own very recent experience (February 1513), when he had been arrested and tortured for his alleged complicity in the Boscoli conspiracy.

  29. Shortly after this he was accused of complicity in an abortive conspiracy against the Medici, imprisoned, and put to the question by torture.

  30. Of the fourteen prisoners accused of complicity in the riots of Montceau-les-Mines, only nine were condemned to terms of imprisonment of one to five years or less important counts.

  31. Returning thence to Germany, he was elected a member of the Prussian National Assembly; then, being arrested for alleged complicity in the Palatinate rising, was at length acquitted after eight months' imprisonment.

  32. It is a no less interesting symptom that the State Church seems more and more anxious to repudiate all complicity with the principles of the Protestant Reformation and to call itself "Anglo-Catholic.

  33. How Deusdona was "squared," and what he got for his not very valuable complicity in these transactions, does not appear.

  34. They will, however, be detained at their homes under arrest until we have investigated their complicity in the treacherous acts of Kerensky during the Kornilov affair!

  35. Kaledin, ataman of the Don Cossacks, had been dismissed by the Provisional Government for his complicity in the Kornilov affair.

  36. A generous Englishman, the ornament of letters, from whom we learn in memorable lines “what constitutes a State,” has denounced all complicity with Slavery in words which strike directly at this plea of necessity.

  37. And yet he fancied he had heard somewhere that to be one of a party engaged in an unlawful act which resulted in anyone being killed was complicity or something, which included all in the crime.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complicity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    artifice; association; burden; cabal; collaboration; collectivism; collusion; communism; community; complicity; concert; concord; concordance; concurrence; condominium; confederacy; connivance; conspiracy; contribution; contrivance; culpability; duet; engagement; esprit; fellowship; finesse; game; harmony; implication; intrigue; involvement; machination; maneuvering; manipulation; morale; mutuality; octet; onus; partaking; partnership; plot; plotting; pooling; quartet; quintet; reciprocity; rigging; scheme; scheming; septet; sextet; sharing; solidarity; stratagem; suffrage; symbiosis; teamwork; trick; trio; troika; voting