wittingly or unwittingly

phrase

: knowingly or unknowingly

Wittingly or unwittingly, she hurt my feelings again.

Examples of wittingly or unwittingly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Freedom of expression is our right as citizens, but our professional commitment in healthcare calls us to a more discerning standard to not inflict pain, wittingly or unwittingly. — Dr. Jacqueline A. Hart, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025

Brady’s access during pre-game production meetings with players and coaches had been limited to ensure the former quarterback was unable to – wittingly or unwittingly – feed information on how teams are going to play or details from their playbook back to the Raiders. — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025

Taken together, all this means that therapists could wittingly or unwittingly feed their own thoughts or desires to a patient, then pass them off as the patient’s true wishes. — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 June 2024

In this sense, Ukraine is a challenge to those in the West who have forgotten the ethical basis of democracy and thereby, wittingly or unwittingly, ceded the field to oligarchy and empire at home and abroad. — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

The Danchenko indictment, however, challenges the idea that Millian fed information to Steele’s project, wittingly or unwittingly. — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021

There is a notion—and Hawking encouraged this, wittingly or unwittingly—that scientific theories and discoveries emerge full-grown like Athena from the head of Zeus; that scientists need their bodies only to communicate their work after the fact. — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021

Rhymes for wittingly or unwittingly

• fittingly
• wittingly
• unremittingly