Found 2 items, similar to Ostensibly.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ostensibly
ostensibly
adv : from appearances alone;
“irrigation often produces bumper
crops from apparently desert land”;
“the child is
seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned”;
“had
been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really
concealing it”-Thomas Hardy;
“on the face of it the
problem seems minor” [syn:
apparently,
seemingly,
on the face of it
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ostensibly
Ostensibly
\Os*ten"si*bly\ ([o^]s*t[e^]n"s[i^]*bl[y^]), adv.
In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
--Walsh.
[1913 Webster]
Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering
into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. --U. S.
Grant.
[1913 Webster]