complicity between

Frequency: 3.50.9 per million words

Indicates a shared, often secret, understanding or cooperation between two or more parties.

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Examples (10)

  • The investigation revealed a shocking complicity between the police and the criminal gang.
  • There was an unspoken complicity between the two leaders to ignore the issue.
  • He denied any complicity between his company and the corrupt officials.
  • Historians uncovered evidence of complicity between the neighboring states during the war.
  • The film portrays the subtle complicity between a captive and her kidnapper.
  • A sense of complicity between the siblings grew as they kept the secret from their parents.
  • The prosecutor's main challenge is to prove the complicity between the CEO and the fraudsters.
  • Allegations of complicity between the guards and the prisoners led to a full-scale inquiry.
  • An atmosphere of quiet complicity between the employees allowed the misconduct to continue for years.
  • The journalist's report exposed the deep-rooted complicity between government agencies and large corporations.