Nov 29, 2017. What does it mean to be complicit? If you're a frequent user of Dictionary.com, chances are you already know. The online dictionary reported multiple spikes in lookups for 'complicit' over the past several months — and ultimately chose the adjective as its word of the year for 2017. 'As 2017 comes to a. Nov 27, 2017. Washington politics have helped elevate the word “complicit” as Dictionary-dot-com's word of the year for 2017, Westwood One reports. Dictionary.com site lexicographer Jane Solomon says numerous events, from politics to natural disasters, drove more people to look up “complicit” at particular times of the. Apr 08, 2017 (CNN)The US is investigating whether Russia was involved in the chemical attack in Syria that prompted President Donald Trump to launch the first direct. Apr 05, 2017 Merriam-Webster defines complicit for Ivanka Trump. Merriam-Webster dictionary wasted no time in filling Ivanka. This undated image provided by Dictionary.com shows the word “complicit” on its website. (Dictionary.com/AP) What does it mean to be complicit? If you’re a frequent user of Dictionary.com, chances are you already know. The online dictionary reported multiple spikes in lookups for “complicit” over the past several months — and ultimately chose the adjective as its word of the year for 2017. “As 2017 comes to a close, it’s time for us to reflect on the words that impacted all of us this year — for better or for worse,” Dictionary.com said in its decision Monday. “She’s beautiful. She’s powerful. Complicit,” a narrator purrs in a voice-over for the commercial, as Johansson-as-Ivanka glides around a formal reception in a rose gold sequined gown. “Complicit: The fragrance for the woman who could stop all this, but won’t,” the commercial concludes. “Also available in a cologne for Jared.” The following day, searches for “complicit” increased 10,000 percent on Dictionary.com. Rival online dictionary in lookups for the word after the SNL sketch, which has more than 8 million views on YouTube. Dictionary.com’s second Ivanka Trump-related spike occurred after an in which the first daughter defended herself against accusations that she was enabling her father’s rhetoric and policies by not speaking out forcefully. “If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force of good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit,” she said “I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing.” [] She added: “I don’t know what it means to be complicit. But you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and, much more importantly, that my father’s administration is the success I know it will be.” After the CBS interview aired, searches for complicit spiked 11,000 percent, according to Dictionary.com.
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