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    [Adverb]  | "os*ten*si*bly" | \ ä-ˈsten(t)-sə-blē \


    1: in an ostensible manner

    2: to all outward appearances


    Origin: 1765 ;

      {see: |ostensible|ostensible} + {see: |-ly:2|-ly:2};

    [Adverb]  | "ostensibly" 


    1: to all outward appearances;


      * e.g., " ... ostensibly a university student studying abroad, he was actually an espionage agent "



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     [ "ostensibly" ]

    1: Outwardly, Supposedly. The most likely assumption

      * e.g.,  ... The ostensibly heterosexual man keeps threatening to shove things up his co-workers asses. The No Child Left Behind Act is ostensibly for improving education. 

     [ "ostensible" ]

    1: appearing as such but not necessarily so

      * e.g.,  ... the second horse was the ostensible winner 

     [ "ostensible" ]

    1: Some fake ass BS that a poseur fronts to pass themself off as more than just a tosser.

     [ "ostensible layer" ]

    1: an unfortunate and rather concrete layer of reality created as a coincidental byproduct of ambiguity in communication through an inadequately defined, poorly understood, and intentionally abused sub/urban vernacular.

      * e.g.,  ... on the ostensible layer, me & that ho are not together; however we still live together, have sex, and are engaged to be married next june. 

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