(a.) Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.
(a.) Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
(n.) Knowledge; hence, experience.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(2) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
(3) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(4) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
(5) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(6) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(7) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
(8) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
(9) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
(10) To know the relation between the signal intensity and sodium concentration, sodium concentration--signal intensity curve was obtained using phantoms with various sodium concentrations (0.05-1.0%).
(11) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
(12) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(13) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
(14) "Everyone knows what it stands for and everyone has already got it in their home.
(15) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
(16) In view of its significant effects on drug metabolizing enzymes and clearance mechanisms, it is important to know its disposition characteristics.
(17) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(18) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(19) It is thus important to know whether carriers of the AT gene have a risk of cancer or diabetes greater than comparable noncarriers.
(20) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.
Knowingness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Bill Hicks had a cynicism and a knowingness, but Williams was like a child – everything was possible.
(2) Stupidity might just retain its integrity in the face of totalitarianism, but knowingness never could.
(3) It is a brilliant piece of reclamation, not least because Dunham doesn't turn it into a hand-wringing essay on women and body shape, but incorporates the issue, with a sly kind of knowingness, into a much broader piece about sexual and emotional maturity.
(4) Listening to his broadcasts, with their humility and knowingness, he sounds like the first news presenter who has – finally – absorbed the impact of The Day Today, which punctured the absurdity of news media nearly 20 years ago, seemingly without affecting them.
(5) In these films, however, what was being concealed by the soft-focus romance (very distant from Jane Austen’s shrewd knowingness) was not the workings of empire, but the first stirrings of its recuperation, as a remnant of very distant history that would be tacitly acknowledged but never regretted.
(6) A dutiful enigma, say her flatterers, or a conveniently empty vessel into which Helen Mirren can imagine any amount of knowingness and intelligence.