knowingly
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- If you do something knowingly, you know you are doing it.
- Synonyms: intentionally and on purpose
- Antonyms: ignorantly, innocently, naively and unknowingly
- It was not an accident -- he knowingly installed a virus in our computer.
- If you act knowingly, you show that you know something.
- He looked at me knowingly, and I knew he was not fooled.