active complicity

Frequency: 4.51.5 per million words

Refers to direct and willing involvement in a wrongful act.

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  • The prosecutor argued that his actions constituted active complicity in the fraud scheme.
  • Her active complicity was proven by emails showing she helped hide the financial losses.
  • The investigation revealed the active complicity of several officials in the cover-up.
  • Without his active complicity, the crime could never have been successfully carried out.
  • She was found guilty of active complicity in the plot to manipulate the stock market.
  • The court must determine the difference between passive knowledge and active complicity.
  • They face charges of active complicity with the enemy during wartime.
  • The report condemned the corporation's active complicity in human rights abuses.
  • Demonstrating active complicity is the key to the prosecution's entire case.
  • His refusal to intervene was seen as a form of active complicity in the injustice.