OSTENSIBLY
Scrabble letter values: O1S1T1E1N1S1I1B3L1Y4 = 15
Definition
- adverb from appearances alone. — synonyms: apparently, seemingly, on_the_face_of_it
Examples
- “irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land”
- “the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned”
- “had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it-Thomas Hardy”