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View synonyms for accomplice

accomplice

[ uh-kom-plis ]

noun

  1. a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing, often as a subordinate.


accomplice

/ əˈkʌm-; əˈkɒmplɪs /

noun

  1. a person who helps another in committing a crime
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of accomplice1

First recorded in 1475–85; a(c) of uncertain origin + late Middle English complice, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin complici- (stem of complex ) “partner”; complex
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Word History and Origins

Origin of accomplice1

C15: from a complice, interpreted as one word. See complice
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Example Sentences

The information will be stored in a confidential database accessible to federal law enforcement and shared with banks who are often unwitting accomplices to international corruption.

From Fortune

At the same time, an accomplice demanded money from a worker near the restaurant’s safe, according to an Arizona Daily Sun article.

In June 1973, with Heaton and other accomplices, Dugdale stole art and silver from the ancestral manse of her childhood in East Devon.

However, when they show up, it’s with an accomplice, and they look nothing like their profile picture.

We’ve already heard a lot about the suppliers and their accomplices.

Ruiz and Aris Maldonado, an alleged accomplice, were arrested on Tuesday.

But everything goes wrong right from the start with one accomplice running out the door, unable to go through with it.

Art can be an accomplice to the process of destroying Eden but is never the sole agent.

Whether Talbot had a Terry Nichols—or any accomplice not secretly working against him—also remains unknown.

A fourth man, Kyle Hartwell, was arrested and charged for being an accomplice.

Now, to become an accomplice in any plan whatever, it is necessary to give advice, or to furnish means of execution.

The impudence of the authorities, to decoy an unsuspecting workingman across the State line, and then arrest him as my accomplice!

It is but too true that one fanatic is sufficient for the commission of a parricide, without any accomplice.

In the first place, if your husband is unfaithful to you, understand clearly that I am not his accomplice.

“I will be the exploiter and not the accomplice of modern Satanism,” said the pious Doctor Bataille.

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