complicity

/kum-PLISS-ih-tee/noun

involvement with others in wrongdoing

Silence at that meeting amounted to complicity.
Synonyms
collusion, involvement, connivance
Antonyms
innocence
Memory hook
com + plic (fold): folded into the plot.

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