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Vocabobobo Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Supine complicity

Hello. Could someone explain to me what "supine complicity" means, please?

Is that like "total obedience"?

thank you so mucn in advance
  

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More or less. " So, the one who is exhibiting supine complicity is just lying there letting someone else commit a wrongful act, in which they are (since they clearly put up no objection) complicit. "

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  • " So, the one who is exhibiting supine complicity is just lying there letting someone else commit a wrongful act, in which they are (since they clearly put up no objection) complicit.
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More or less. "Supine" means to lie flat on one's back facing upwards, and "complicity," according to Webster's, means "association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act." So, the one who is exhibiting supine complicity is just lying there letting someone else commit a wrongful act, in which they are (since they clearly put up no objection) complicit.

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