All 3 Uses of
ostensibly
in
Washington Square
- So two or three other persons were invited; but Morris Townsend, though he was by no means the ostensible, was the real, occasion of the feast.†
Chpt 7 *
- Mrs. Penniman's convictions as regards the relations of her niece and the clever young visitor who saved appearances by coming ostensibly for both the ladies—Mrs. Penniman's convictions had passed into a riper and richer phase.†
Chpt 8
- She hardly knew what had happened; ostensibly she had only had a difference with her lover, as other girls had had before, and the thing was not only not a rupture, but she was under no obligation to regard it even as a menace.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(ostensibly) appearing as such, but not so (sometimes only possibly not so)