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Complicit vs Culpable - What's the difference?

complicit | culpable |

As adjectives the difference between complicit and culpable

is that complicit is associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature while culpable is meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy.

complicit

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
  • * 1861 , Henry M. Wheeler, The Slaves' Champion , p. 203,
    • It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit , guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues,
  • * 1973 , , As If by Magic , Secker and Warburg, p. 177:
    • "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
  • * 2005 , Larry Dennsion, " Letters," Time , 7 March:
    • Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.

    Synonyms

    * complicitous

    Derived terms

    * complicitly

    Related terms

    * complicity

    References

    * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

    culpable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy.
    • I am culpable for stealing your money.

    Derived terms

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