1 while knowing the truth or likely result of what you are doing
SYNDELIBERATELY:
She was accused of knowingly making a false statement to the police.
2 in a way that shows that you know or understand about sth that is supposed to be secret:
He glanced at her knowingly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for knowingly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is knowingly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, knowingly is tagged as adverb.
Does knowingly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — knowingly appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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