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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
ostensibly
from appearances alone (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Derived from adjective:
ostensible, seeming (for: seemingly), apparent (for: apparently)
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