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knowingly

[ UK /nˈə‍ʊɪŋli/ ]
[ US /ˈnoʊɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. 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
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