"adverb: Deliberately; knowingly."

"The judge said that the complaint, if true, would show BankAtlantic's executives acted with scienter -- the intent or knowledge of wrongdoing that's the key to a plaintiff's argument in a class action complaint."
Brian Bandell; Judge Lets Class Action Suit Proceed Against BankAtlantic Bancorp; South Florida Business Journal; May 22, 2009.


In the usage section, "with scienter" is an adverb phrase, but "scienter" serves as a noun. Is "scienter" perhaps always used with "with" so that the entry should be "with scienter?"