adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a knowing smile (= when you know something secret )
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She wanted to smack him for his knowing smile.
a knowing wink
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‘You look tired,’ he said with a knowing wink .
There’s no knowing
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There’s no knowing what this lunatic will do next.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
look
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You've done it now, she thought, numbing herself against Lucy's inevitable knowing look and dismissive laugh.
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The girl had a knowing look .
smile
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Nate Cocello allowed a knowing smile to cross his face at what he knew would be the natural reactions of line managers.
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Harry, for his part, exchanged a knowing smile with Papaioannou, then went on in the direction of the village.
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Glancing surreptitiously around, she glimpsed knowing smiles and heads drawn close as people whispered.
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When Gwen gave a rather knowing smile , she blushed scarlet.
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You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then, but now acid rain is no laughing matter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knowing my luck
there's no knowing
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If we go there's no knowing .
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Otherwise there's no knowing just how many more he would have killed.
with/knowing sb's luck
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Knowing his luck , he'll get hit with a golf ball or something.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I heard what you were saying," Maya said with a knowing smile.
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Her questions and knowing looks unnerved him, almost as if she had figured him out.
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I saw him give her a knowing smile as she left the room.