Complicit vs Acquiescence - What's the difference?
complicit | acquiescence |
Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
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* 1973 , , As If by Magic , Secker and Warburg,
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A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
(legal) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.
As an adjective complicit
is associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.As a noun acquiescence is
a silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.complicit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)p. 203,
- It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit , guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues,
p. 177:
- "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
Letters," Time , 7 March:
- Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.