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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
knowingly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concerned
▪ If the contravener paid up there would be no liability on the persons knowingly concerned.
■ VERB
smile
▪ Dexter sat back in his armchair, unsure whether to laugh outright or smile knowingly at the businessman's practical joke.
▪ McDonald said, smiling knowingly and indulgently.
▪ They just sorta smiled knowingly and kept the name.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If any employee knowingly breaks the terms of this contract they will be dismissed immediately.
▪ J.D. laughed softly and knowingly.
▪ Stansfield would never have knowingly become involved in political espionage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knowingly

Knowingly \Know"ing*ly\, adv.

  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend.
    --Strype.

  2. By experience. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
knowingly

late 14c., from knowing + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
knowingly

adv. 1 In the manner of one who knows. 2 With knowledge of all relevant facts.

WordNet
knowingly

adv. with full knowledge and deliberation; "he wittingly deleted the references" [syn: wittingly] [ant: unwittingly, unwittingly]

Usage examples of "knowingly".

I doubt whether I had then knowingly met another Harrovian, though I knew the song he had quoted.

Every kid in America had become an astrophysicist overnight and talked knowingly of exhaust velocities, synergy curves, and Keplerian ellipses.

Stephen looked upon as the bane of the Navy, he was no very good company either, except perhaps for those who could speak knowingly of kites, moonsails, and star-gazers.

But when he hesitantly mentioned how Dion had seemed to develop such an instant yen for Dora Pannes, she whooped knowingly.

After all, my handmaidens willingly and knowingly make the sacrifices that are asked of them.

And what sayest thou to thy perverting knowingly the right purport and intent of the law?

Republican officials had knowingly knocked thousands of innocent Black voters off the Florida voter roles before the election.

No doubt the other members of the Brotherhood would agree that anyone who would knowingly bring the Master of the Aethyr - and apparently one of his disciples as well - down upon them all was growing daft and senile.

She smiled knowingly and every now and again glanced at Brevitt’s face as if to confirm some particularly unpleasant characteristic that the birds had just pointed out to her.

She smiled knowingly and every now and again glanced at Brevitt’s face as if to confirm some particularly unpleasant characteristic that the birds had just pointed out to her.

On the grounds that she had wilfully and knowingly participated with her husband in the fraudulent attempt to become possessed of the estate of Buisson-Souef, and was strongly suspected of having participated with him in his greater crime, she was sentenced to be publicly flogged, branded on both shoulders with the letter V (Voleuse) and imprisoned for life in the Salpetriere Prison.

Townsend put great trust in their servant Jerry as to the ordinary duties of gardening, driving, and butlering, they would not knowingly trust him with a word of their habitual conversation about the things around them.

Moreover, dominant ISP's, such as AT&T and PSINet have recurrently been accused of knowingly collaborating with spammers.

But if he knowingly abducts a girl from [59] her parents, he must find out her age at his peril.

You hoped for luck and nodded your head knowingly if you made a good landfall.