Associations to the word «Ostensible»

Wiktionary

OSTENSIBLE, adjective. Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
OSTENSIBLE, adjective. Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).

Dictionary definition

OSTENSIBLE, adjective. Appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty".
OSTENSIBLE, adjective. Represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin