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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. here's hoping next year's word is.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    impeachment

    1. Re:here's hoping next year's word is.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      President Pence?! No thanks! Best thing to do is leave things as they are and just vote out all the incumbents from the house and as many as you can in the senate. Replace all democrats and republicans with independents. Then, if you get a good speaker, impeach both Trump AND Pence! And drag all their complicit supporters into criminal court!

      And don't forget kids, with reelection rates as high as they are, the voters are complicit in everything the government does.

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

      ...says the idiots who spent eight years bitching about results they didn't like.