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knowingly

/noh-ing/US // ˈnoʊ ɪŋ //UK // (ˈnəʊɪŋ) //

明知故犯,明知故犯地,明知故问,明知

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
    • : that knows; having knowledge or information; intelligent.
    • : shrewd, sharp, or astute.
    • : conscious; intentional; deliberate.

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Examples

  • Whose parents almost certainly dream of their children’s desperate cries — and awake knowing they can’t reach their kids.

  • So this season, rest easy knowing that you can shop Fenty Skin, Fenty Beauty, and hundreds of other brands all in one place.

  • An Army National Guard colonel charged with knowingly exposing a woman to HIV faced his accuser in a military courtroom on Monday.

  • What remains unclear is just how many women McFarland may have knowingly put in danger of contracting HIV.

  • Assad has been accused of knowingly leaving room for ISIS to grow, the better to weaken the less radical rebels.

  • Richard Dawkins recently tweeted that knowingly birthing a baby with Down syndrome is immoral.

  • “Thirty minutes alone with a man is enough for him to annihilate you,” she remarks, knowingly.

  • The trader smiled knowingly, for he knew that the major esteemed himself the best.

  • I have heard of you before, knowingly spoke the violinist, nodding his head sadly.

  • "He wears the good-luck stone," the old people said as they sat around the fire, and they nodded their heads knowingly.

  • The watcher grinned knowingly and, rather than enter into explanations, she hastily thrust a bill into his hand and dismissed him.

  • Kurds are not too particular under these circumstances, though they will not eat the meat knowingly.