ostensibly (adv.)

  1. 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 , apparently , seemingly , seemingly , on the face of it , on the face of it , apparently , apparently , seemingly , seemingly , on the face of it , on the face of it , apparently , apparently , seemingly , seemingly , on the face of it , on the face of it , apparently , apparently , seemingly , seemingly , on the face of it , on the face of it ]

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