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'Complicit' Is The Word Of The Year In 2017, Dictionary.com Says (npr.org)

Posted by msmash on from the word dept.

Dictionary.com has selected "complicit" as its word of the year for 2017, citing the term's renewed relevance in U.S. culture and politics -- and noting that a refusal to be complicit has also been "a grounding force of 2017." From a report: The website defines "complicit" as "choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity." Interest in the word spiked several times this year, Dictionary.com says -- most notably when Ivanka Trump said in April, "I don't know what it means to be complicit."

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  1. Re:here's hoping next year's word is.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    better than our snowflake in Chief. cries on twitter anytime someone doesn't like him..

    boo hoo. fat president can't take the heat!