ad. 可公开, 显然, 表面, 外表, 诡称, 假装

[ adv ]
from appearances alone
<adv.all>
irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert landthe child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned
had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it
on the face of it the problem seems minor

Ostensibly \Os*ten"si*bly\ ([o^]s*t[e^]n"s[i^]*bl[y^]), adv.
In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
--Walsh.

Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering
into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. --U. S.
Grant.