ostensibly

ostensible | American Dictionary

ostensible
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɑˈsten·sə·bəl/
appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else:
Rous published 60 scientific papers after his ostensible retirement.

ostensibly

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ɑˈsten·sə·bli/
If the engine on an ostensibly low-mileage car is filthy, it may have higher mileage than it seems.

Examples of ostensible

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We thus encounter an inescapable double bind in our attempts to read the significance of ostensible attempts at remembrance.
The ostensible relationship of present to past is generally one of rejection as these female protagonists attempt to define for themselves a new identity.
In essence, the practice of governance reform is more important than any ostensible criterion of objective success.
The ostensible exile of beliefs about the supernatural out of written into oral culture increasingly looks like an optical illusion for the same reason.
However, the programme's ostensible journalistic purpose, carried in the commentary and interview structure, was precisely to explore the existence and level of this threat.
The lack of a common thread may well be due to the absence of any definition of the book's ostensible dependent variable - ' 'social policy' '.
Although coregulated behavior seemingly occurs without ostensible training, training in fact begins at the organism's birth.
The force of this thesis will be explained below in relation to a number of ostensible counterexamples to the four-chunk hypothesis that commentators brought up.
Here, the ostensible line between cosmetic artificiality and "genuine" beauty is obliterated.
Even in the most violent and chaotic farm invasions during the ' time of jambanja ' there was an equally instrumental order beneath ostensible disorder.
While the definition used is broad, such breadth is essential to capture the ostensible purpose of environmental concern and environmental action: reduced environmental damage.
They too had to find a way of living with ostensible contradictions.
He was instructed to assume charge immediately, and report back, but he clearly regarded this ostensible promotion as a poisoned chalice.
Such forms of healing are deeply embedded in social life and, against the ostensible hopes of many, show no signs of disappearing.
Culture is a collectivity, in which we are all, whether we like it or not, implicated, even when we are ostensible victims.
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