knowingly

Adverb

1. In the manner of one who knows.
   • She smiled knowingly, but kept the secret.
   • He pursed his lips knowingly and winked exaggeratedly. - 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:
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,...

   Synonyms: awarely consciously

   Antonyms: unknowingly obliviously unawarely unconsciously subconsciously