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    knowingly
    know‧ing‧ly /ˈnəʊɪŋli $ ˈnoʊ-/ 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.
         
    THESAURUS
       ▪ deliberately if you do something deliberately, you do it because you want to: He upset her deliberately. | 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’.