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ostensible
[ o-sten-suh-buhl ]
adjective
- outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended:
an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
- Rare. apparent, evident, or conspicuous:
the ostensible truth of their theories.
ostensible
/ ɒˈɛԲɪə /
adjective
- apparent; seeming
- pretended
Derived Forms
- DzˌٱԲˈٲ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- Dz·ٱ·· adverb
- ԴDz·Dz·ٱ·· adjective
- ܲ·Dz·ٱ·· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ostensible1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ostensible1
Example Sentences
The tragicomic hallucination that you see unfolding every day, wherein ostensible adults discuss secret war plans in hackable social media texts replete with emojis, exclamation points and lols, is what the American people freely chose.
With swathes of bushland and ocean all around, the ostensible ease of concealing a body in Antigua may partly explain the absence of answers many families suffer.
An ostensible crackdown on “waste, fraud and abuse” inside the Social Security Administration is making giving birth even more complicated for some Americans.
Friday’s meeting was arranged to discuss Trump’s demand for Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, ostensible “payback” for US military support.
And even the fiercest critics of the tariffs bent a knee to Trump’s ostensible but exaggerated rationale for the tariffs, the flow of fentanyl and undocumented workers coming into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.
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