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English adverb: ostensibly

1. ostensibly from appearances alone


SamplesIrrigation 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.
On the face of it the problem seems minor.


Synonymsapparently, on the face of it, seemingly









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