ostensible
adjective
outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended.
unostensible
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a word derived from
ostensible.
Example Sentences
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He was the second agent appointed to control all power ostensible and unostensible, and to head these gentlemen whose "custom," the Nabob says, "was in the end to ask for money."
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
And side by side with those unostensible preparations that kept a stream of armed men passing quietly overseas, the normal business of a city waxed and throve in the old accustomed way.
From Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair
