complicit
Pronunciation
  • (British, America) IPA: /kəmˈplɪs.ɪt/
Adjective

complicit

  1. Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
    • 1973, Angus Wilson, As If by Magic, Secker and Warburg, p. 177:
      "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
    • 2005, Larry Dennsion, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1032380,00.html Letters]," Time, 7 March:
      Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.
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