0 in a way that is not conscious of a particular situation or problem: --
Knowingly or unknowingly, he made some wildly contradictory statement on behalf of his party.
The consequence has been that many voluntary organisations have, albeit in many cases unknowingly, been breaking the law by running their minibuses.
He is afraid that anyone offending unknowingly and unwittingly may be harassed by proceedings of a frivolous nature.
In this, possibly unknowingly, they were reflecting the war-time diagnosis that made officers four times more likely than their men to suffer from some war neurosis.
Other times, though, we acquire our reference groups accidentally, unintentionally, sometimes even unknowingly.
If the user unknowingly selects a non-intended meaning of a word or phrase uttered by the system, all sorts of things can go wrong.
Disturbingly this suggests that architects may be unknowingly ordering their view of reality through deceptive and illusory media.
Sometimes a semantic loanword unknowingly misrepresents the original, as when 'tragedy' is translated as beiju ('sad drama') and 'intellectual' as zhishi fenzi ('mind worker').
