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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
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- Dz·ٱ·· adverb
- ԴDz·Dz·ٱ·· adjective
- ܲ·Dz·ٱ·· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of ostensible1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of ostensible1
Example Sentences
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.
Decades of relying on the rules of an ostensible meritocracy, however, have proven one thing: that it's an illusory social ideal.
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