Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ostensibly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ostensibly \Os*ten"si*bly\, adv.
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) 1.7 (wn)
ostensibly
adv : 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}]
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