knowingly
adverbeattesté dans les dialogues
In the manner of one who knows.
adverbe
- 1
In the manner of one who knows.
She smiled knowingly, but kept the secret.
He pursed his lips knowingly and winked exaggeratedly.
- 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.
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.
Étymologie
From Middle English knawyngly, knowyngly. By surface analysis, knowing + -ly.
Formes
- comparatif
- more knowingly
- superlatif
- most knowingly