Use "ostensible" in a sentence
1. His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity.
2. The ostensible reason wasn't the real reason.
3. Ostensible agency is a special kind of agent system.
4. The ostensible reason for his absence was illness.
5. The ostensible glory of that company allures the unwary investor.
6. Appearing: See: apparent , colorable , evident , ostensible , perceivable , presumptive , specious
7. The ostensible reason for his resignation was ill health.
8. These experiences left him skeptical of the ostensible benefits of closing the glass subsidiary.
9. 63 synonyms for Apparent: seeming, supposed, alleged, outward, exterior, superficial, ostensible
10. Morris Townsend though he was by no means ostensible, was the real occasion of the feast.
11. The ostensible purpose of these meetings was to gather information on financial strategies.
12. This makes even more nonsensical its ostensible reasons for the land invasions.
13. He similarly assumes that exile players are only qualified for the clubs' ostensible countries of origin.
14. The ostensible reason for this outlay was that kerosene was the lighting fuel of the poor.
15. He did not accept the ostensible explanation, but suspected that there was a nigger in the woodpile.
16. Synonyms for Apparent include seeming, ostensible, supposed, outward, alleged, perceived, presumed, superficial, ostensive and assumed
17. Dickinson's poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity , is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness.
18. Ornate as they are , these ostensible and material are after all nothingness for life.
19. Intel carefully skirted the issues of Pentium's price and delivery at its ostensible introduction last month.
20. And by the way, why do these hotels focus on the ostensible supply rather than the demand for sex workers?
21. Does Astrophil, who is the ostensible author, mean he loves truth or that it is true he is in love?
22. The ostensible reason for his absence was illness, but everyone knew he'd gone to a football match.
23. Synonyms for Believed include thought, assumed, alleged, held, understood, asserted, averred, declared, described and ostensible
24. Ongoing problems seem to arise of their own accord, and then to spread through the ranks with no ostensible cause.
25. The war was fought to remove a cruel dictator - at least that was the ostensible aim.
26. Though there are some ostensible differences, they are essentially complimentary in politics which laid the theoretical foundation for the moral politics of feudalist society.
27. Indeed, the linguist Charles Ruhl has argued that certain ostensible Ambiguities, including act/object and type/token, are really cases of lexical underdetermination.
28. As I said before, in today’s age of technology and media small powers and groups can create effects disproportionate to their physical scale or ostensible material power.
29. The Conflagration of Rome, attributed by Nero to the Christians, which was the ostensible cause of the first persecution. THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY JOEL MUNSELL A large number of warehouses, also, many of which were …
30. In Mt.’s form it is the outward ostensible act of denial that is Animadverted on; here the feeling of shame, which is its cause—Mark 9:1.— καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς: with this phrase Mk
31. An ostensible paean to the thesping profession and its wacky, lovable practitioners, this dysfunctional-family/romantic seriocomedy in fact occasions plenty of bad acting, making this an interminable Belabor of love that will have trouble finding an audience in any format
32. Apparente agg aggettivo: Descrive o specifica un sostantivo: "Una persona fidata" - "Con un cacciavite piccolo" - "Questioni controverse" (che sembra ma non è) ostensible adj adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house."
33. ‘The attraction of such cities as New York is the promise of Boundlessness, of the sky being the only limit to human ambition.’ ‘When the western frontier's apparent Boundlessness was revealed as only ostensible - when lines were measured and laid down across it, disproving its infiniteness - this escape route was cut off.’
34. Age regression was used to explore the perceived cause of symptoms, and Abreaction of the associated emotions was encouraged.: The ostensible aim of autognosis was emotional Abreaction rather than a thorough breakdown of the content of memory.: Like Karon's patient, they were often treated with hypnotic Abreaction in which the patient was expected to re-live the moment of trauma with