ostensible.
表面上的,表面上,表面上看,表面上看是
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adj.adjective · 形容词
- 1.
- ›outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
- ›apparent, evident, or conspicuous: the ostensible truth of their theories.
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Examples
Days after polishing off this ostensible treat, I’m still brushing the bad taste out of my mouth.
Along with its headquarters employees, that alone would exceed the PPP’s ostensible 500-employee cap.
Even more remarkably, Florida’s renewed stance against both ostensible communism and critical race theory in schools comes with a new state policy of surveying college students and faculty for their opinions on their schools’ ideological makeup.
While the motivation to improve election security is spurious, the ostensible goal isn’t — everyone would agree that a secure election is important for democracy.
Despite the ostensible democratic reforms in the country in recent years, the military commander-in-chief retained powerful influence, including command of the defense, border affairs and home affairs ministries, whose reach is pervasive.
And why would its ostensible spokesperson refuse to answer yes/no questions about them?
A trove of Bush-era emails that had been quote-unquote-lost resurfaced in 2009, the victim of an ostensible act of mislabeling.
The ostensible middle-ground approach, to “provide weapons an training” to the Ukrainians got about 25 perent of the vote.
Oblivious self-entitlement is now so widespread and suitable for mockery that the cure has begun to follow in its wake.