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Synonyms for knowingly

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for knowingly

with full knowledge and deliberation

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If I had but the right to pay your legacy and to take your receipt!--Something to this purpose surely mingled with the blast of the train as it cleared the stations, all knowingly shutting up their green eyes and opening their red ones when they prepared to let the boofer lady pass.
"How I came there, or rather why I am there," replied Bonacieux, "that is entirely impossible for me to tell you, because I don't know myself; but to a certainty it is not for having, knowingly at least, disobliged Monsieur the Cardinal."
He rode, in the line of march, all prepared for action: his powder-flask and shot-pouch knowingly slung at the pommel of his saddle, to be at hand; his rifle balanced on his shoulder.
I was wrong when I spoke as if you'd done me an injury knowingly, but I wasn't wrong in what I said before, about your behaviour t' Hetty, and I can't shake hands with you as if I held you my friend the same as ever till you've cleared that up better."
He had never knowingly given her pain, but he now felt that she required more positive kindness; and with that view endeavoured, in the first place, to lessen her fears of them all, and gave her especially a great deal of good advice as to playing with Maria and Julia, and being as merry as possible.
Miss Wilkinson with a rippling laugh looked at Philip knowingly. What a man, but what a writer!
"Let us first determine that they knowingly affronted us before we take measures for punishment."
The evil eyes narrowed, a vicious, thin-lipped smile tortured the villainous face, as Mohammed Beyd grinned knowingly into the face of the Belgian.
The cook looked at the housemaid, the housemaid looked knowingly at the footman--the awful kitchen inquisition which sits in judgement in every house and knows everything--sat on Rebecca at that moment.
Jose Jesus Rodriguez-Rangel, 29, of Eugene, charged with knowingly conspiring to possess and distribute heroin and meth.
Sociologist Rosemarie Skaine presents Female Suicide Bombers, a scholarly collective profile of women recruited to deliberately and knowingly sacrifice their lives in violent acts.
Inciting people to violence is not constitutionally protected, and neither is making knowingly false or slanderous statements about people.
It points out that the first duty of a professional was spelled out 2,500 years ago in the Hipprocratic oath: "Above all, do not knowingly do harm."
Wang was not only escorted off the grounds by uniformed Secret Service agents, as might be expected, but also, according to ABC, she was charged with "knowingly and willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening or harassing ...
"Unless you are a Native American, everyone here is a son or daughter of immigrants," the cardinal said Ash Wednesday, arguing that Catholics "should not observe" a proposed law that would make it a crime to knowingly assist anyone in the U.S.