adjective
- involved in or associated with wrongdoing; being an accomplice
Usage: formal
Examples
- The manager was complicitous in the embezzlement scheme.
- She felt complicitous for not reporting the safety violations.
- The investigation revealed several complicitous employees.
- His silence made him appear complicitous in the cover-up.
- The board members were complicitous in hiding the financial losses.
- By accepting bribes, the officials became complicitous in corruption.