knowingly
advEtymology From Middle English knawyngly, knowyngly. By surface analysis, knowing + -ly.
1
In the manner of one who knows.
- She smiled knowingly, but kept the secret.
- He pursed his lips knowingly and winked exaggeratedly.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:
2
With knowledge of all relevant facts.
- She would never knowingly pour any pollutant down the drain.
- We keep our prices low and are never knowingly undersold.
1 more example
- The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America’s most sworn foreign adversaries to try to win a US election.2021 March 17, Stephen Collinson, “New US intel report shows Russia, Trump and GOP acolytes have same goals”, in CNN:
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