?1809 ‘An English Israelite’ 24 Private subscriptions raised among the Jewish nation, and unostensibly applied to the relief of domestic sufferers.
1862 S. Lucas 327 He received an ostensible letter of recall, and with it a private letter apprising him that ‘unostensibly his proceedings were approved of’.
1997 28 237 The rich ‘ladies’ who..assimilated unostensibly into the gay male community.