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单词 ostensibly
释义
ostensiblyos‧ten‧si‧bly /ɒˈstensəbli $ ɑː-/ adverb Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A stranger came to the door, ostensibly to ask for directions.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • 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.
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