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ostensiblyos‧ten‧si‧bly /ɒˈstensəbli $ ɑː-/ adverb - A stranger came to the door, ostensibly to ask for directions.
- Diligently, even angrily, we express, discuss, and defend our ostensibly knowledgeable positions.
- Expected early in the year, it had been postponed, ostensibly because of the Gulf war.
- It is the absurdly pompous Pons who ostensibly pieces together the scattered evidence of Urim's past.
- Ramsay's other secret society, the Right Club, was also ostensibly closed down at the outbreak of war.
- The project in which everyone at Black Mountain was ostensibly engaged was building the community and personal growth.
- These external agents are beyond organizational control and, hence, ostensibly immune to corrective action.
- They were shot by one or more gunmen ostensibly delivering a painting, business people said.
if something is ostensibly true, people say that it is true but it is not really true SYN supposedly: She stayed behind at the office, ostensibly to work. |