Words similar to ostensibly

Example sentences for: ostensibly

How can you use “ostensibly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Meanwhile, ostensibly destitute Somali refugees led lucrative secret careers as black-market merchants of relief supplies.
Falwell's National Liberty Journal notes that one of the ostensibly male characters, Tinky Winky, carries a purse, "is purple--the gay-pride color," and "his antenna is shaped like a triangle--the gay-pride symbol."
And, like McGovern, Dole was enticed into an untenable choice, not by his party's fringes, but by ostensibly responsible establishmentarian elements.
Specifically, soft money can be contributed in unlimited amounts so long as it is ostensibly spent on vague "party-building activities" rather than on behalf of, or at the direction of, particular candidates.
Communist Party boss (ostensibly a social democrat) Ion Iliescu ruled between a mob's execution of longtime strongman Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 and his own loss of an election last year.