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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoid complicity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to refrain from being involved in wrongdoing or unethical behavior.
Example: "To maintain our integrity, we must avoid complicity in any actions that could harm the community."
Alternatives: "steer clear of involvement" or "prevent participation in wrongdoing".
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Despite Barnes's personal efforts to avoid complicity, the company as a whole did nothing.
Moral vegetarians avoid meat for ethical reasons: to avoid complicity in the suffering of animals.
A third option is for the United States to strive to avoid complicity.
On this occasion, the Russian embassy did little to facilitate the events and absented themselves to avoid complicity with their military colleagues at the dinner.
Echoing this despair about the implications of the Grand Bargain, several experienced NGOs active in the refugee camps in Greece have decided to shut down their operations to avoid complicity in grave humanitarian violations.
Valiantly though he tries in these memoirs, Mr Rumsfeld cannot avoid complicity in both of these debacles.He was, of course, a central participant in the policy meetings that Ms Rice chaired.
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I am under no illusion that I have been or will be successful in my public endeavors to change children's environments, but I feel I must continue as long as I medicate children in order to avoid full complicity.
But there will be no avoiding congressional complicity in the shattering of yet another norm of office, check and balance.
In fact, if hindsight is 20/20, Ms. Refaeli comes off as prescient for avoiding possible complicity in the IDF's latest barbarity (Gaza, of course).
Despite the pressure from American hawks to dispatch him post haste, Colin Powell, the secretary of state was concerned to avoid direct American complicity in a coup.
The former foreign secretary Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen, a former senior MI6 officer, could avoid prosecution over complicity in the rendition and torture of two Libyan dissidents by claiming immunity, the supreme court has been told.
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