1975, J. S. Lawry, "Green Light or Square of Light in The Great Gatsby," Dalhousie Review, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 118:Despite the original promise of freedom and toleration, conspiracy or complicitousness are either sought out or thrust upon such people.
1994, Edward Friedman, "Reconstructing China's National Identity," The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 75:Instead, "the people" were invited to hate. . . . Life was a lie, complicitousness in self-enslavement.
2006, Andrew Bell, Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199298273, p. 11:This book . . . ponders the role, including the complicitousness, of civic audiences in determining and sustaining the authority of political leadership.