Posted on 11/27/2017 5:03:40 PM PST by bgill
Do you think 2017 has been a pretty challenging year for the world? You’re not alone. Dictionary.com named its “word of the year” today. It’s choice? Complicit. The site announced its word of the year with a Trump joke, first suggesting it had selected covfefe for this year’s honor, although this year’s word choice is certainly Trump focused. The site defines complicit as an adjective that means “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.” Interest in the word spiked on April 5 of this year when Ivanka Trump told CBS This Morning “I don’t know what it means to be complicit” when asked if she and her husband were complicit in the actions of her father.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
The dumbing down of America. Trump needs a refund on Ivanka's private school education.
EVERYONE (Trump excepted) in the District of Corruption was complicit in the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
See, I even used it in a sentence........
I’m quite sure that she knows the normal meaning of complicit — In the context of a hostile interview, she was probably questioning the interviewer’s intended meaning.
Well let me ask you. Were you complicit in the actions of YOUR father? Or mother? Or brother?
The proper response is WTF are you talking about, or politely, I don't know what it means to be complicit.
It's a when did you stop beating your wife type of question the response to which is to sanction the person who asked it.
Ordinary use and legal meaning can be very different.
In this case, it looks like there was a snide implication -- and much disrespect -- in the journalist's question.
She was right not to answer such a leading question.
Bigly.
Thats my choice for word of the year.
Nice. Who is this writer to be criticizing grammar?!
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