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ostensibly |
Overview of adv ostensibly The adv ostensibly has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it -- (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") Overview of adv ostensibly The adv ostensibly has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it -- (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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