[
UK
/nˈəʊɪŋli/
]
[ US /ˈnoʊɪŋɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈnoʊɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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with full knowledge and deliberation
he wittingly deleted the references
How To Use knowingly In A Sentence
- In reality the record suggests that it is rare for knowingly false accusations to be made against British troops. Times, Sunday Times
- The committee heard Miss Coles knowingly misled her managers about the number of unallocated cases.
- An unidentified pilot could be no more than a private aviator who unknowingly sends out a wrong signal on his transponder.
- In any case, Pang et al. may have unknowingly found an unstated risk for hospital birth of having a mildly premature baby.
- I have never knowingly had a friend who was sexually involved with a married man.
- John smirked knowingly as his compatriots gasped in unison.
- Very few people, even propagandists knowingly lie, and they tend to believe what they peddle is in fact very true. Matthew Yglesias » Chait Responds
- And all the time her eyes, with their long lashes in their dark hollow sockets will gaze into the eyes of a man who loved her truly and knowingly married her.
- It appears that what I said was untrue, but I did not knowingly lie to you.
- In light of this "curious case of the cacophonous snack pack," I find that many people see sustainability as a version of a Faustian dilemma; they often knowingly make choices that have immediate personal benefits, but in the long run are disastrous for all of us. Ron Ashkenas: Sustainability's Faustian Dilemma