Synonyms of knowingly

knowingly

adverb

as in intentionally

with full awareness of what one is doing

cannot convict unless the defendant knowingly committed perjury

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intentionally
• deliberately
• purposely
• willfully
• consciously
• purposefully
• voluntarily
• wittingly
• willingly
• designedly
• on purpose
• purposively
• advisedly
• calculatedly
• premeditatedly
• studiedly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unconsciously
• inadvertently
• unwittingly
• accidentally
• incidentally
• unintentionally
• randomly
• unknowingly
• involuntarily
• spontaneously
• instinctively
• haphazardly
• unwillingly
• impulsively

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of knowingly

Dominion alleged that the cable network operator had knowingly broadcast false claims that Dominion had rigged the 2020 presidential election. — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026

How can any of the Clippers partners or sponsors or fans trust this team with their dollars or their time or their affection after they were apparently caught knowingly breaking one of the NBA’s cardinal rules? — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Investigators concluded Ballmer knowingly tried to help Leonard obtain outside income and personally approved a transaction that allowed Leonard’s enormous Aspiration endorsement agreement to proceed. — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

McBride argued that Robinson knowingly created that risk, given that the single bullet fired could have missed its target, ricocheted or passed-through Kirk's body and hit one of the thousands of people in the crowd, which included children. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

The administration has pressured states to run their voter rolls through an error-prone database to find noncitizen voters and even threatened to prosecute election officials for knowingly allowing noncitizens to cast ballots. — Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Some airlines amended their procedures to encourage hand-flying both the initial climb and initial descent in benign conditions, knowingly trading a sliver of fuel efficiency to keep the crew’s raw flying skills alive. — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026

To most effectively disinherit someone, the person be named in the will and there should be a statement that the testator is knowingly and intentionally leaving them nothing. — Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Only one person in this friend group is knowingly connected to a violent cult, so are we supposed to view him as a potential suspect? — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026