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ostensible

/o-sten-suh-buhl/US // ɒˈstɛn sə bəl //UK // (ɒˈstɛnsɪbəl) //

表面上的,表面上,表面上看,表面上看是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
    • : apparent, evident, or conspicuous: the ostensible truth of their theories.

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Examples

  • Days after polishing off this ostensible treat, I’m still brushing the bad taste out of my mouth.

  • Along with its headquarters employees, that alone would exceed the PPP’s ostensible 500-employee cap.

  • Even more remarkably, Florida’s renewed stance against both ostensible communism and critical race theory in schools comes with a new state policy of surveying college students and faculty for their opinions on their schools’ ideological makeup.

  • While the motivation to improve election security is spurious, the ostensible goal isn’t — everyone would agree that a secure election is important for democracy.

  • Despite the ostensible democratic reforms in the country in recent years, the military commander-in-chief retained powerful influence, including command of the defense, border affairs and home affairs ministries, whose reach is pervasive.

  • And why would its ostensible spokesperson refuse to answer yes/no questions about them?

  • A trove of Bush-era emails that had been quote-unquote-lost resurfaced in 2009, the victim of an ostensible act of mislabeling.

  • The ostensible middle-ground approach, to “provide weapons an training” to the Ukrainians got about  25 perent of the vote.

  • Oblivious self-entitlement is now so widespread and suitable for mockery that the ostensible cure has begun to follow in its wake.

  • It would seem that for all of its ostensible lack of vim and vigor, Israel Media Watch is a very effective organization.

  • The ostensible reason for this was, that in the Emperor's opinion he had not pressed the siege of Saragossa.

  • About 100,000 members were enrolled in the union, the ostensible aim of which was the defence of the working manʼs interests.

  • The conflagration of Rome, attributed by Nero to the Christians, which was the ostensible cause of the first persecution.

  • People took up the notion from his wild appearance, and because he had no ostensible means of living.

  • No time should be lost, therefore return her Epistle with the aforesaid ostensible letter.