The website is filled with heavily censored depictions of what are ostensibly violent and pornographic incidents as means of shock value.
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Ostensibly
//ɒˈstɛn.sɪ.bli//
Synonyms for "ostensibly" (91 found)
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2 entriesderived from
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1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- привидно adv (ostensibly)
- уж adv (ostensibly)
Catalan
1 entries- ostensiblement adv (ostensibly)
Czech
1 entries- zdánlivě adv (ostensibly)
Dutch
3 entries- ogenschijnlijk adv (ostensibly)
- op het eerste gezicht adv (ostensibly)
- schijnbaar adv (ostensibly)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝajne adv (ostensibly)
Finnish
1 entries- näennäisesti adv (ostensibly)
French
3 entries- en apparence adv (ostensibly)
- ostensiblement adv (ostensibly)
- soi-disant adv (ostensibly)
German
4 entries- anscheinend adv (ostensibly)
- offenbar adv (ostensibly)
- offensichtlich adv (ostensibly)
- vorgeblich adv (ostensibly)
Greek
3 entries- δήθεν adv (ostensibly)
- κατ’ επίφαση adv (ostensibly)
- φαινομενικά adv (ostensibly)
Irish
2 entries- de réir cosúlachta adv (ostensibly)
- de réir dealraimh adv (ostensibly)
Japanese
2 entries- うわべは adv (ostensibly)
- 表向きは adv (ostensibly)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tilsynelatende adv (ostensibly)
Persian
1 entries- به ظاهر adv (ostensibly)
Polish
1 entries- pozornie adv (ostensibly)
Portuguese
1 entries- ostensivamente adv (ostensibly)
Russian
2 entries- вроде как adv (ostensibly)
- я́кобы adv (ostensibly)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tòbože adv (ostensibly)
- то̀боже adv (ostensibly)
Spanish
1 entries- ostensiblemente adv (ostensibly)
Swedish
2 entries- skenbart adv (ostensibly)
- till synes adv (ostensibly)
Turkish
2 entries- görünüşe göre adv (ostensibly)
- görünüşte adv (ostensibly)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The rise in ticket prices was ostensibly to pay for improvements to the service.
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Tom was ostensibly at the zoo.
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He invited her up to his room, ostensibly to look at his stamp collection.
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