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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};
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[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.
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[ "ostensible" ]
1: appearing as such but not necessarily so
* e.g., ... the second horse was the ostensible winner
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[ "ostensible" ]
1: Some fake ass BS that a poseur fronts to pass themself off as more than just a tosser.
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[ "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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