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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ostensibly \Os*ten"si*bly\ ([o^]s*t[e^]n"s[i^]*bl[y^]), adverb
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ostensibly
adverb: 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" [syn: {apparently}, {seemingly}, {on
the face of it}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "ostensibly":
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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