KNOWINGLY


Meaning of KNOWINGLY in English

know ‧ ing ‧ ly /ˈnəʊɪŋli $ ˈnoʊ-/ BrE AmE adverb

[ Word Family: adjective : ↑ knowing , ↑ knowledgeable , ↑ known ≠ ↑ unknown ; noun : ↑ knowledge , the unknown; adverb : ↑ knowingly ≠ ↑ unknowingly , ↑ knowledgeably ; verb : ↑ know ]

1 . in a way that shows you know about something secret or embarrassing:

She smiled knowingly at us.

2 . deliberately OPP accidentally :

He would never knowingly upset people.

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THESAURUS

▪ deliberately if you do something deliberately, you do it because you want to:

He upset her deliberately.

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I deliberately kept the letter short.

▪ on purpose especially spoken deliberately, especially in order to annoy someone or get an advantage for yourself:

I didn’t push her on purpose; it was an accident.

▪ intentionally deliberately, especially in order to have a particular result or effect:

Very few teenagers become pregnant intentionally.

▪ consciously /ˈkɒnʃəsli/ done after thinking carefully about what you are doing, especially because you know what the results of your actions might be:

Parents pass their values to their children, though not always consciously.

▪ knowingly if you knowingly do something wrong or illegal, you do it even though you know it is wrong:

FBI agents arrested Dillon for ‘knowingly making a false statement on a passport application’.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.