What's the difference between accomplice and buddy?
Accomplice
Definition:
(n.) A cooperator.
(n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead he ripped out the phone, left the couple and fled empty-handed with his accomplices.
(2) These accusations seek to make her an accomplice to a misuse of public funds through her parliamentary assistant’s contract.
(3) The programme alleges that the Home Office ignored evidence presented by Ellis's solicitor Victor Mischon that she had an accomplice when she shot her lover David Blakely, an upper-class racing driver, outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London, on Easter Sunday 1955.
(4) But he added: “Although yesterday’s attack has not been claimed, this sort of thing fits in perfectly with calls for murder from such terrorist organisations.” Molins said the investigation would focus on a number of key issues, including potential accomplices, how Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had procured the gun he fired at police and whether he was connected to radical jihadi networks.
(5) Executives at a London-based mining company should be investigated and charged as accomplices to murder for their role in a police massacre of 34 striking mine workers in South Africa , a judicial commission of inquiry will be told.
(6) Since 2012 hundreds of millions of dollars have gone directly into the pockets of traffickers and their accomplices, including government officials in Burma and Thailand .
(7) One of the suspects was quoted by police as saying that he and his accomplice had targeted a group linked to the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's most powerful crime syndicate, in apparent retaliation for Sugiura's death, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
(8) He called the incident “a stab in the back, carried out by the accomplices of terrorists”.
(9) His book details his efforts, for example, to win some clemency for a young man named Joe Sullivan , convicted in 1989, aged 13, of burglary and rape on testimony given by two older “accomplices”, one with a long criminal record of sexual violence.
(10) In a bid to move on - and avoid discrediting Mao too much - party leaders ordered that the Chairman’s widow, Jiang Qing, and a group of accomplices be publicly tried for masterminding the chaos.
(11) His accomplice was initially arrested and confessed they were sent by Boko Haram ,” he said.
(12) Emma Sheppard, with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by puncturing their tyres with the crude device made of plywood and nails.
(13) The report argues that the region's "poor, uneducated and vulnerable" should not be penalised for taking drugs when governments and law enforcement agencies should be using their funds and legal powers to stop the traffickers and their accomplices.
(14) He was Bin Laden’s acolyte, his accomplice, his stooge.
(15) He remains in jail today primarily because of an “accomplice” theory of liability which was included in the written charges but not argued to the jury, that he allegedly assisted someone in an unidentified way.
(16) The witnesses were divided by a simple question: did Sheridan lie about affairs and visits to a sex club in Manchester, or was he right to insist that he was the victim of a plot to destroy his political career, in which his former comrades and friends in the Scottish Socialist party became accomplices of the union-bashing News of the World ?
(17) When Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane in November 2015, Moscow responded furiously, with Putin calling it “a stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists”.
(18) The man, who has not been identified, is accused of the cold-blooded murder of 25 people and with being an accomplice in the murder of hundreds of other civilians at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
(19) Sydney siege inquest: Monis may have been driven in 'by unknown accomplice' Read more Minutes later, the gunman killed the cafe’s manager, Tori Johnson.
(20) Has it become an unwitting accomplice in silencing and removing "troublemakers"?
Buddy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Katie Neil, 22, works full-time for Buddies in Suffolk and has spent the summer supporting five young people.
(2) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
(3) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
(4) Then there's me and my buddy Ralph Garman , who does a daily radio show in LA, doing our entertainment podcast Hollywood Babble-On , which is basically just two guys who've worked in showbiz long enough to have informed opinions, sitting around taking the piss out of the entertainment industry.
(5) Approximately 7pm, Rowrah Bird calls in on old schoolfriend and drinking buddy Neil Jacques, 52, who lives on the same street.
(6) It is in honour of those killers that Cameron's new buddies march through the streets of Riga.
(7) In later life the star had to give up drinking due to ill health but the greatest acting triumph of his later years was playing another notorious drunk, and O'Toole drinking buddy, Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
(8) However, Buddies does more than simply offer respite care or home help.
(9) Other new options the review presents for providers of NHS care include increased use of “buddying”, by which high-performing hospitals help those in special measures, joint venture networks such as the orthopaedic centre in south-west London run by four NHS trusts, and the “expert provider” system.
(10) Even though we have Facebook, who said I am not interested as a player to play with my buddies in a room?
(11) They had formed an intense attachment to other men in their combat unit, which had been disrupted by the death of a buddy.
(12) Eighty-two-year-old Richard “Buddy” Weaver was killed by Oklahoma City police after he allegedly raised a machete at an officer who opened fire; neighbors later described Weaver as having schizophrenia.
(13) His buddies – the far-right, climate-denying , UN-hating renegades who formed his campaign brains trust – are egging him on to simply break it, to smash it on the floor for a good laugh.
(14) 5.34pm BST Politics should be consumed in moderation , and that reportedly goes for alcohol too, but if you insist on mixing them and are looking for some sort of structure in dissipation, well, our beer buddies at Conservative Intelligence Briefing have created a Presidential Debates drinking game.
(15) In Horrible Bosses, Bateman's hard-working office drone attempts to murder his psychotic boss, Kevin Spacey , and assist his two buddies in doing the same to their bosses.
(16) Louisiana attorney general Buddy Caldwell could have set Woodfox free immediately.
(17) But he got by, until the funding was removed for his buddy-system in the second year.
(18) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
(19) It was one of those clichéd, filmic moments when I looked at him and breathed: "You know, old buddy, that might just work …" Or so I recall.
(20) Metcalfe will find out whether the chutney is a winner at his next 'buddy day'.