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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu

Meaning of "complicitous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPLICITOUS

complicitous  [kəmˈplɪsɪtəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPLICITOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Complicitous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COMPLICITOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of complicitous in the English dictionary

The definition of complicitous in the dictionary is having complicity.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPLICITOUS


acetous
ˈæsɪtəs
apparatus
ˌæpəˈreɪtəs
comitatus
ˌkɒmɪˈteɪtəs
duplicitous
djuːˈplɪsɪtəs
emeritus
ɪˈmɛrɪtəs
felicitous
fɪˈlɪsɪtəs
hiatus
haɪˈeɪtəs
impetus
ˈɪmpɪtəs
infelicitous
ˌɪnfɪˈlɪsɪtəs
necessitous
nɪˈsɛsɪtəs
oversolicitous
ˌəʊvəsəˈlɪsɪtəs
situs
ˈsaɪtəs
solicitous
səˈlɪsɪtəs
status
ˈsteɪtəs
stratus
ˈstreɪtəs
Tacitus
ˈtæsɪtəs
tinnitus
ˈtɪnɪtəs
Titus
ˈtaɪtəs
ubiquitous
juːˈbɪkwɪtəs
unsolicitous
ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPLICITOUS

complicacies
complicacy
complicant
complicate
complicated
complicatedly
complicatedness
complication
complicative
complice
complicit
complicities
complicitly
complicity
complied
complier
complies
compliment
complimental
complimentarily

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPLICITOUS

acclivitous
alacritous
ancipitous
calamitous
circuitous
compositous
declivitous
fatuitous
fortuitous
gratuitous
halitous
heteroclitous
iniquitous
momentous
obliquitous
precipitous
pyritous
serendipitous
spiritous
strepitous
vomitous

Synonyms and antonyms of complicitous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «complicitous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPLICITOUS

Find out the translation of complicitous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of complicitous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «complicitous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

complicitous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cómplice
570 millions of speakers

English

complicitous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

complicitous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتواطئ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

complicitous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cúmplice
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

complicitous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

complice
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Complicitous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

complicitous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

complicitous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

complicitous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Complicitous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

complicitous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

complicitous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निष्काळजी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

complicitous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

complice
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

complicitous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

complicitous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

complice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνένοχο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

complicitous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

complicitous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

complicitous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of complicitous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPLICITOUS»

The term «complicitous» is used very little and occupies the 177.987 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPLICITOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about complicitous

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QUOTES WITH «COMPLICITOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word complicitous.
1
Pierre Bourdieu
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPLICITOUS»

Discover the use of complicitous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to complicitous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social ...
that Israeli Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza are the complicitous civilians of a settler regime, understood in one sense, while other Palestinians believe that all Israeli Jews, including Jews living within Israel's pre-1967 borders , are ...
John Foran, David Lane, Andreja Zivkovic, 2007
2
American Indian Literary Nationalism
The difference between those of us bringing up the rear on Pulitano's critical Great Chain of Being and the more highly evolved Vizenor, Owens, and Sarris is our denial. We do not say it enough. We are complicitous . . . We are complicitous .
Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, Robert Allen Warrior, 2006
3
The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change
In addition, while he initially acknowledges that both tactics and strategies may be both complicitous and resistant at the same time, de Certeau's theory treats these as mutually exclusive states. In effect, his distinction between strategy and  ...
Molly Anne Rothenberg, 2013
4
Seeing Through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism
For Linda Hutcheon the postmodern attitude is one of "complicitous critique," a duality not shared by television, which she finds to be totally complicitous with neoconservatism and thus lacking the critical edge she locates in postmodern ...
Jane Feuer, 1995
5
Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on ...
revolutionaries typically threaten and attack what he refers to as “complicitous civilians,” categories of civilians who are viewed by revolutionaries as “ complicitous insofar as they are believed to (1) routinely benefit from the actions of the ...
Uradyn E. Bulag, 2010
6
Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New ...
and said, sanctioning the silencing of minority voices and interests not only in the classroom but also in the society at large" (40). To use the language of disinterested judgment is therefore to become complicitous with that group, in essence to ...
Reed Way Dasenbrock, 2010
7
Contention and Trust in Cities and States
Another social-structural factor that encourages terrorism is the weakness or absence of a history of political alliance and cooperation between insurgents and their mass base, on the one hand, and complicitous civilians, on the other. Where  ...
Michael Hanagan, Chris Tilly, 2011
8
Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age
Chapter. 5. Complicitous. Accountability. 5.1 INTRODUCTION In the last chapter, I described all of the participants in the Dresden bombing as implicated in the firestorm's rage. Because the collective act of firebombing is ascribable to each ...
Christopher Kutz, 2007
9
French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of ...
A person can also become complicitous in crime through baser motives or even through sheer accident, in which case there is no real motive at all. Finally, one can become complicitous in a crime through a combination of these and other ...
Richard J. Golsan, 2006
10
Life Before Birth : The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos ...
searcher does not cause the abortion, he or she is not morally responsible for or complicitous in the abortion. However, moral complicity is more complex than Robertson is willing to acknowledge. Burtchaell compares researchers using fetal ...
Albany Bonnie Steinbock Associate Professor of Philosophy & Public Policy State University of New York, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPLICITOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term complicitous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Review: 'Cool Britannia' Shows Off Native Land's Talents
Men partner one another briefly at various points, women group together in complicitous array at others. Sometimes, Matisse-like images of ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
2
Pedagogy of the Precariat
HG: Because I refuse to become complicitous with the dominating and death dealing forces that surround me! And I think that becoming ... «CounterPunch, Jun 15»
3
Patriarchs Met in Damascus to Give Courage and Hope to a …
Whilst viewing the international community as partly complicitous with it, it also calls on it to fight against it, or at least stop supporting it covertly. «AINA, Jun 15»
4
Politics then and now: Hillary Clinton and the Founding Fathers
... behavior because they knew we would be watching, an idea we should find endearing because it makes us complicitous in their greatness.”. «Communities Digital News, May 15»
5
AUDIO: Henry Giroux: Liberalism Fails Against Racism, Inequality …
All the while, liberals are either silent or complicitous in the ongoing systemic evisceration of social provisions, the war waged against poor ... «Truthdig, May 15»
6
New Zealand and the Production of White Phosphorous Bombs …
... be absolutely outraged that their monies and blood profits are complicitous in the deaths and inhumane suffering of Palestinian children like ... «Center for Research on Globalization, May 15»
7
Civil Servants Profit from Palestinian Children's' Suffering
... be absolutely outraged that their monies and blood profits are complicitous in the deaths and inhumane suffering of Palestinian children like ... «Scoop.co.nz, Apr 15»
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The Complicitous 'Objectivity' of the Irish Media
Moreover, it is worth noting that the complicitous nature of self-imposed silences by journalists is in stark contrast to the supposed pluralistic ... «CounterPunch, Apr 15»
9
Sabino Vive: A New Film by Carlos Azpúrua
... the facts are all there and the conclusions unavoidable, including that the government was complicitous in his death, if only through inaction. «Venezuelanalysis.com, Mar 15»
10
Against Self-Criticism
This allows us to think that it is complicitous not to stand up to the internal tyranny of what is only one part – a small but loud part – of the self. «London Review of Books, Feb 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Complicitous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/complicitous>. Apr 2024 ».
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