complicitous

Adjective

complicitous (comparative more complicitous, superlative most complicitous)

1. Complicit.
   • In still other cases in which courts have spoken of a conspirator's responsibility for another's acts, the facts clearly show a complicitous relationship.1959, “Developments in the Law: Criminal Conspiracy,”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 72, number 5, page 994
   • This is why it is too easy and convenient to blame contemporary empire building on transnational corporations or the Bush/Blair administrations alone; the latter may well be more powerfully complicitous, but this is no reason for us to claim innocence and neutrality.2005, Ilan Kapoor, “Participatory Development, Complicity and Desire,”, in Third World Quarterly, volume 26, number 8, page 1215