Complicit vs Complacent - What's the difference?
complicit | complacent |
Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
* 1861 , Henry M. Wheeler, The Slaves' Champion ,
* 1973 , , As If by Magic , Secker and Warburg,
* 2005 , Larry Dennsion, "
Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
Apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem.
As adjectives the difference between complicit and complacent
is that complicit is associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature while complacent is uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.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.
