abet
abet
definition
verb
he was not guilty of murder but was guilty of aiding and abetting others
encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular, to commit a crime or other offense.
example
Under Section 241 of the Criminal Code of Canada, it is an offence to counsel, aide or 'abet' anyone to commit suicide.
As a journalist, she is under no written or unwritten rules of restraint to aid or 'abet' a felony.
You can be an aider and 'abettor' in a manslaughter, notwithstanding that your activity did not cause the death.
Publishing or even sharing that information, then, is legally tantamount to 'abetting' theft.
Agents threatened her with being charged with aiding and 'abetting' a criminal.
However, difficulties arise when the crime committed by the principal offender is more serious than initially envisaged by the 'abettors' .
Is the language of Political Correctness aiding and 'abetting' its proliferation?
It leads right to those who would seek to prosecute critics of these administrations as 'abettors' and defenders of terrorism.
She is 'abetted' in her fraud by a respectable publisher and its public relations arm, taking advantage of the ignorance of her interlocutors and reviewers regarding the most basic facts of the case.
Creating a virus, they theorize, might be considered a form of 'abetting' a crime by providing materials.
In a whirl of publicity, 'abetted' by her wily lawyer, Roxie becomes Chicago's latest celebrity.
He should be tried for aiding and 'abetting' criminals.
The Liberals have studiously continued to ignore the idea, 'abetted' unwittingly by Opposition parties obsessed with gazing at their own navels.
They would plead as aiders and 'abettors' and get a lesser sentence.
The one who did not return to clear his name became the only one still convicted - of aiding and 'abetting' people now cleared of any offence.
Now he had betrayed the hometown people by aiding and 'abetting' their enemies.
In many cases the police itself is the culprit in aiding and 'abetting' the crime.
The accused, a music critic, was found guilty of 'abetting' a musician to contravene the Aliens Order 1920.
And if they think that his representative is too effective, they can always charge them with aiding and 'abetting' a terrorist.
The woman and a 30-year-old man were arrested on charges of false imprisonment, serious assault and aiding and 'abetting' a fugitive.
Central banks that have acquiesced in, or 'abetted' , high inflation are practicing a form of financial corruption that eventually leads to financial ruin.
It was the beginning of a new phase in which violence was organised and orchestrated with the 'abetment' of the State.
What the agents could hear was treason, which is legally defined as ‘aiding and 'abetting' the enemy in time of war.’
I feel the police and our judicial system are aiding and 'abetting' a government that makes criminals out of ordinary members of the public.
Both accused Johnson of fostering a leniency that 'abetted' crime.
Those found guilty of misusing this sad incident for their sinister purpose should be properly punished as 'abettors' of murder and mayhem.
The implication is that business schools are aiding and 'abetting' accounting fraud and other misdeeds by failing to teach their students not to commit crimes.
The press 'abets' the hoax because it must report what candidates say and because it favors campaign combat over substance.
The press should not buy the argument that its reporting on war is aiding and 'abetting' the enemy.
All individuals convicted of performing, aiding, or 'abetting' the rape were subject to life in prison.
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