"intentional damage"
"a knowing attempt to defraud"
"a willful waste of time"
"a knowing collector of rare books"
"surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"
"knowing instructors"
"a knowledgeable critic"
"a knowledgeable audience"
The first known use of knowing was in the 14th century
laborernoun
one that worksespecially: a person who does unskilled physical work for wages
labialadjective
of or relating to the lips or labia
kumquatnoun
a small yellowish orange fruit related to the citruses with sweet spongy skin and somewhat tart pulp used especially for preserves
a tree or shrub that bears kumquats
knowingadjective
having or showing special knowledge
a knowing smile
shrewdly and keenly alert
intentional
1 This is another source of the genre’s appeal: in a culture defined by knowingness and ironic distance, genuine surprise is increasingly rare — a spiritual luxury that brings us close to something ancient.
2 The super-conscious, that which is above consciousness, is already out of the thinking realm, that's the omniscience, that's the realm of knowingness.
超意识，顾名思义，是在意识之上，那就已经不是思维的层次了，那是在全知的层次。
3 One of this novel's aspects I love is that the young narrator is innocent and open to experience, not muffled up in the slightly stuffy knowingness of Wyndham's other male narrators.
4 The film is an elegantly realized movie that virtually flaunts its production values, its suave sophistication, its simultaneous knowingness regarding its own messages and its own techniques.
5 The was one of the first outlets to be described with the now-common adjective “snarky,” but although sarcasm and knowingness were part of its formula, there was much more to it than that.
6 There's no knowing what they will do.
没法知道他们会做些什么。
7 Set in the Hamptons and very loosely based on “The Count of Monte Cristo,” this nighttime soap mixed the campy melodrama of “Dynasty” with the chic knowingness of “Gossip Girl.”
8 “I just had this, like, stupid little knowingness,” she said, that she would find her way in.
9 The knowingness of contemporary life is not the same thing as wisdom.
10 But what really made Tucker exceptional was her voice: a husky alto that, from the beginning, had a knowingness to it, honed sharp.
11 And when his hand caressed me – oh, the knowingness of those caresses – I melted.
12 “If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false,” Ms. Kushner said.
13 To trust my inner knowingness and take accordinglyin personal and professional actions.
信任内在的觉知,要身体力行,并且是专业化的行动.
14 Elizabeth, in color, looks into the camera with a knowing, close-lipped smile.
15 The jester was a revelation…that sense of knowingness always there, underneath a façade of madness and anarchy.
16 As the illiterate child of a house of ill-repute, Sue is well educated in the ways of the world, so it seems like a comment on different sorts of knowingness.
17 And when we become really masterful over mind we are able to and we do let go of mind and operate in the realm of omniscience, in the realm of knowingness.
当我们对此游刃有余时，我们便能够释放头脑，在全知的层次进行操作。
18 She looked at us in a knowing way.
19 A John le Carré novel invariably features a tone of knowingness, a labyrinthine plot that demands close attention and is paid out meticulously, and an intricate gambit of ultimate futility.
20 But this kind of knowingness is as naïve as the obliviousness it critiques.