ostensibly

ostensibly

1. näennäisesti; muka, mukamas

Esimerkkejä:

He resigned, 'ostensibly' from ill health.

The Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, 'ostensibly' to save socialism and to protect the interests of the working class.

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Englannin sanakirja

ostensibly (englanti > suomi)

1. näennäisesti

ostensibly englanniksi

1. puhekieltä seemingly, apparently, on the surface

2. 1889, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee, Dictionary of national biography

On 13 June the peshwa signed a new treaty, ostensibly complying with the demands of the British government...

3. (RQ:Sinclair Jungle)

Up to a year or two ago it had been the custom to kill horses in the yards — ostensibly for fertilizer...

4. 2007, Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson, Sandworms of Dune

People strive to achieve perfection — ostensibly an honorable goal — but complete perfection is dangerous. To be imperfect, but human, is far preferable.

5. 2007 April 10, "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/opinion/13blum.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?," The New York Times (retrieved 18 September 2015):

Mr. Marwan’s story — a tale overflowing with the suspense and ruthless duplicity of a spy novel — began to take shape in the spring of 1969. He had come to London, ostensibly to consult a Harley Street doctor about a stomach ailment. He chose to be examined by a doctor whose offices had been used previously for a covert meeting between King Hussein of Jordan and the general director of the Israeli prime minister’s office."

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