[ US /əˈkɑmpɫəs/ ]
[ UK /ɐkˈɒmplɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
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How To Use accomplice In A Sentence

  • Burke's execution was witnessed by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who sympathized with the general opinion that both men's wives had served as accomplices, and that the anatomists had been accessories to the murders.
  • To fix a passage of play, you need the captain and a willing accomplice or two. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
  • His accomplice is white, 5ft 11 in, tubby or of large build, but not as big as the first suspect.
  • Thomas and his accomplices empty the bags, which end of being full of rats, in the hallway of a low-rent apartment building.
  • What your really trying to accomplice is to scare others off that might be interested in finding out more about us. Sound Politics: Mitt Romney for President: Part I, the Competition
  • And bids can be destroyed or go unrecorded so that a low bid from an agent's accomplice wins, to the detriment of the seller. Times, Sunday Times
  • We refer to the rules which oblige a trial judge to warn the jury of the danger of convicting upon the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice.
  • This had the interesting side effect of causing his vocal accomplice to fall temporarily silent.
  • I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?
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