Vocabulary
Ostensible
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
Urdu meaning
بظاہر، بناوٹی طور پر، نمایاں
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In a sense, this ostensible indifference towards checks and balances has raised concerns about the future quality of US institutions, and hence the dollar`s continued dominance.
- Today, the foreign service is also under pressure from officers of the Pakistan Administrative Service to give up posts and areas of responsibility relating to economic diplomacy on the ostensible grounds of `efficiency`.
- Now, the ostensible target is disinformation, but the sweeping amendments are explicitly aimed at silencing any criticism of the state, political dissent or attempts at holding state institutions to account.
- Now, the ostensible target is disinformation, but the sweeping amendments are explicitly aimed at silencing any criticism of the state, political dissent or attempts at holding state institutions to account.
- HIS was, perhaps, the only case in which there seemed to be ostensible malfeasance involved.
Synonyms
apparent, seeming, outward, surface, superficial, professed, supposed, avowed
Curator example
“the real dispute which lay behind the ostensible complaint”
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