Meaning of OSTENSIBLY
| Pronunciation: | | âst'ensublee
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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, on the face of it, seemingly |
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| | Definition: | | \Os*ten"si*bly\, adv.
In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
--Walsh.
Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering
into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. --U. S.
Grant.
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| | Related Terms: | | allegedly, apparently, arrantly, artificially, as a cover, as a pretext, as an excuse, as it seems, at first sight, avowedly, blatantly, boldly, clearly, conspicuously, demonstrably, erroneously, evidently, externally, factitiously, falsely, flagrantly, for public consumption, for the record, glaringly, in name only, manifestly, markedly, nominally, notably, noticeably, notoriously, obtrusively, obviously, on the surface, ostensively, outstandingly, outwardly, patently, plainly, plausibly, prima facie, professedly, prominently, pronouncedly, purportedly, saliently, seemingly, spuriously, staringly, strikingly, superficially, synthetically, to all appearances, to all seeming, to the eye, truthlessly, ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously |
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