Meaning of ON THE FACE OF IT

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	Definition:		[adv]  from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor"
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	Synonyms:		apparently, ostensibly, seemingly