Accomplice meaning

Noun: accomplice

Pronunciation:(u’kúm-plis)

Accomplice meaning:

• A person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)

Synonyms: confederate
Derived forms: accomplices
Quotations:

1. Tom Robbins – Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
2. Ayaan Hirsi Ali – However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
3. Joyce Carol Oates – And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo – that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
4. George Orwell – A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims but accomplices
5. Joseph Conrad – The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
6. Khaled Hosseini – Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion”.
7. Edward R. Murrow – No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
8. Jane Seville – D snorted. “Gotta be prepared.” He looked up at Jack’s face, frowning. “What?” Jack shrugged. “It’s just something.” He sighed. “I’m starting to see words like ‘accessory’ and ‘accomplice’ floating around my head.” D barely reacted. “How about ‘dead on arrival’? Ya like that better?” Jack nodded, pressing his lips together. “Get more ammo. Ammo is good.
9. Gabriel García Márquez – More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
10. Vladimir Nabokov – As far back as I can remember myself and I remember myself with lawless lucidity, I have been my own accomplice, who knows too much, and therefore is dangerous.

Sample sentences:

1. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.
2. the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
3. When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice
4. You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn’t mean anything. You’ve become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
5. There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
6. So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinent- if not inappropriate- response. To set aside the sympathy we extend to others beset by war and murderous politics for a reflection on how our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and may- in ways we might prefer not to imagine- be linked to their suffering, as the wealth as some may imply the destitution of others, is a task for which the painful, stirring images supply only an initial spark.
7. It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
8. I have tried to keep memory alive.I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
9. No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
10. I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.
11. Jamie Watson is far smarter than you think. He isn’t my accomplice. He’s no one’s accomplice. And he isn’t guilty of anything.
12. It was perhaps relief and confidence stemming from the opportunity to tempt you into being my accomplice, however indirectly, in the lonely work of producing the mask. For me, whatever you may say, you are the most important other person. No, I do not mean it in a negative sense. I meant that the one who must first restore the roadway, the one whose name I had to write on the first letter, was first on my list of others. Under any circumstances, I simply did not want to lose you. To lose you would be symbolic of losing the world.
13. Do not dictate to your author try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.
14. But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation and yours too to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity.Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code whose notion itself is already contradictory of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.
15. If you’ve never shot a gun,You can’t understand how it feels in your hands. Cool to the touch, all its venom coiled inside, deadly,like a steel-scaled serpent. Awaiting your bidding.You select it’s prey, paper,tin, or flesh. You lie in wait,learn that patience is the killer’s most trustworthy accomplice.You choose the moment. What. Where. When. Decided.But the how is everything.You lift your weapon,ease it into place, cock it,to load it, knowing the satisfying snitch means a bullet is yours to command.Now, make or break,it’s all up to you. You aim knowing a hair either way means bull’s-eye or miss.Success or failure. Life or death.You have to relax,convince your muscles not to be tense, not to betray you. Sight again. Adjust.Don’t become distracted by the heat of the hunt.Instincts take over.You shoot and adrenaline screams as your target shreds or the flesh drops. And for one indescribable moment you are God.
16. The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.
17. For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush. Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.
18. Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as our own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives. All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? You sow crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your daughters that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in order that he may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows—to be led into his battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made servants of his greed and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield your bodies unto hard labor in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him stronger and the mightier to hold you in check. From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not be taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.
19. The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
20. When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
21. I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
22. Thieves hunt in couples, but a liar has no accomplice.
23. Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation
24. Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act.
25. They thought that he was an accomplice.
26. He was considered to be an accomplice.
27. No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
28. The night is my accomplice.
29. Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet.
30. When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.