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- nonstandardpossiblyrareuncountableComplicity.
Instead, "the people" were invited to hate. . . . Life was a lie, complicitousness in self-enslavement.
1994, Edward Friedman, “Reconstructing China's National Identity,”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 53, number 1, page 752 more examples
Despite the original promise of freedom and toleration, conspiracy or complicitousness are either sought out or thrust upon such people.
1975, J. S. Lawry, “Green Light or Square of Light in The Great Gatsby,”, in Dalhousie Review, volume 55, number 1, page 118This book . . . ponders the role, including the complicitousness, of civic audiences in determining and sustaining the authority of political leadership.
2006, Andrew Bell, Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11
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