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What does ostensible mean?

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Adjective
  1. Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
  2. Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).
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The show confirmed that he is an unabashed landscape painter, regardless of his ostensible subject matter.
A biography of Elvire O'Connor, the ostensible writer of this piece, is included in the program and is a tiny work of art in its own right.
On top of that, the government's plan doesn't even achieve its ostensible goal of solvency!
There is a remarkable piece of dialogue on just this subject in Dr Faustus, although the ostensible topic is music.
The ostensible reason is that he does not wish to relinquish his seat in the European parliament.
For all his ostensible desire to tell the truth, when it comes to the hardest points, McNamara proves slippery.

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