| 单词 | ostensibly |
| 释义 | ostensibly (once / 1930 pages) adv Ostensibly is an adverb you use to talk about something that looks one way, but underneath there's the hint of a different motivation for that action. One day you go to an ice cream shop. Then the next day. And the next. You keep going, ostensibly to buy ice cream, but there’s a deeper reason. The cute person who works there, perhaps? To ostensibly do something admits that the surface reason might not be the only reason. The Latin root words translate as “to stretch in view of,” so imagine that you’re stretching a thin mask over your true intentions. WORD FAMILYostensible: ostensibly USAGE EXAMPLESIt was ostensibly designed to assist the fight against Isis. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Gas prices will now fluctuate, something that hasn't been seen in Mexico since the government started fixing prices in 1992, ostensibly to control inflation. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Though ostensibly a defense of our decision not to veto a U.N. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) adv from appearances alone "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy Syn apparently, on the face of it, seemingly |
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