Appearing as such but not necessarily so.
Represented or appearing as such; pretended.
1 The ostensible object of the insurgents now is not the real one.
2 The state of his health was the ostensible cause of his departure.
3 At noon I dropped our ostensible position back the other ten miles.
4 Nor had he been sent out with this ostensible object in view.
5 Well, under the ostensible guise of protecting our liberties, they compromise them.
6 She felt that these words covered something more than their ostensible meaning.
7 Health risks from ostensible occupational and environmental toxicant exposure are difficult to quantify.
8 Twitter is not the first company to try for an ostensible patent treaty.
9 Its ostensible purpose was to eliminate Palestinian strongholds in southern Lebanon.
10 They generally appear in the ostensible state of barbers and dyers.
11 This was the ostensible purpose of the journey to the fort.
12 The ostensible theory of the Crown was to reconcile the Colonies.
13 A stick of pineapple chewing gum was the ostensible object of the call.
14 There is always a subtext, supporting, amplifying and sometimes subverting the ostensible subject.
15 And then the traditional and ostensible England falls from you altogether.
16 To please me, her cousin; this is, indeed, the ostensible cause.
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