Associations to the word «Ostensibly»
Noun
Wiktionary
OSTENSIBLY, adverb. (modal) seemingly, apparently, on the surface
Dictionary definition
OSTENSIBLY, adverb. 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".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.