"Complicit"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Jan 30 14:04:17 UTC 2005


Here's a fairly common word that is not in the OED:


complicit (not in OED)

1969 _University of Kansas Law Review_ XVII. 631 (Hein Online)  Consumers,
as the result of their peculiar personalities and motivations, are
complicit partners in deception, and in some cases may be almost solely
the cause for any misperceptions that occur.


Fred Shapiro


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