Aware
Aware adjective - Having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind.
Nearby Word: awareness
Sleeping
Sleeping adjective - Being in a state of suspended consciousness.
Usage example: a roomful of sleeping preschoolers at a daycare center
Both words in one sentence
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Your Cheating Heart: Fortunata is aware that her husband Stephanus is sleeping with the slave girl Hedone but is too afraid to say anything about it.
Source: Series / Pompeii: The Last Day -
Especially galling when you remember that she had just infected him with the disease by sleeping with him, and once again, was probably perfectly aware of this.
Source: Implausible Deniability -
Parental Incest: The priest sleeping with Maya who by now, is aware of the knowledge that it is her father and intentionally doing it to make him feel guilty of incest.
Source: Film / School of the Holy Beast
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