knowingly
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3.9
- adverb
- /ˈnoʊɪŋli/
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a sabiendas
- He knowingly signed the contract, aware of all the terms and conditions.
- knowingly or unknowingly
- knowingly violate
- a person who knowingly
That means he could have knowingly tried to give Biden COVID.
- That means he could have knowingly tried to give Biden COVID.
- And I think especially when I see what he knowingly has put himself through on this.
- And you willfully and knowingly voted for it.
- So did you knowingly silence doctors?
- If you trim those things in many ways, knowingly or unknowingly, many of you are using this.
- A lot of women struggle knowingly or unknowingly with being emotionally selfish.
- It is, and I am very fortunate enough to not have knowingly caught it yet.
- But Trump expressing his view on the outcome of the election, even knowingly telling a lie is not unconstitutional.
- Yes, but not from any mental illness, but instead a knowingly embraced depravity.
- It will be a brutal plan, built knowingly on the suffering, starvation and death of millions of Soviet citizens.
- And Pratchett said, you know, I've said I'll never knowingly write the last Discworld novel, but it asked to evolve, to keep going.
- And we just knowingly know that we had a thing happen.
Examples
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The company knowingly misled its customers about the safety of its products.
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The defendant was subsequently convicted for knowingly and willfully threatening the president.
Academic text (2017) -
And I think especially when I see what he knowingly has put himself through on this.
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It's knowingly not very well paid.
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Do you knowingly keep me and Joseph at a distance?
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I said, oh, nothing, and she looked at me knowingly and said she'd ask around.
Fiction book (1995) -
Surely she would never knowingly have sent the child off alone to an empty house!
Fiction book (1998) -
The subject of her trial was whether she spent years knowingly making false claims.
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You're knowingly putting people out of business, full stop.
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In most jurisdictions, no costs are imposed on the carrier who knowingly puts others at risk.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
320
3.7
To do something on purpose and with care
254
1.6
By choice, not by accident
155
3.1
In a way that someone does something on purpose, not by accident
72
3.5
To do something on purpose
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6.0
To do something on purpose, often to disobey rules
4
7.5
In a way that shows you know what you are doing
2
3.9
Carefully and with full attention to what you do
Antonyms
How Intentional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Knowingly comes from the simple verb know, the same root you see in knowledge, plus the endings -ing and -ly that make it describe 'how' something is done. So, to act knowingly is to do something 'with full knowledge' or 'on purpose', meaning you act while you really 'know' what you are doing.