Crossword-Solution: OSTENSIBLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ostensible | a. | Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown. |
| Ostensible | a. | Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “OSTENSIBLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| For show | 2 answers |
| Barmecidal | 5 answers |
| professed | 6 answers |
| Open to view | 8 answers |
| plausible | 15 answers |
| in name only | 17 answers |
| titular | 17 answers |
| Nominal | 17 answers |
| Illusive | 26 answers |
| specious | 28 answers |
| Minimal | 31 answers |
| ostensibly | 37 answers |
| Seeming | 48 answers |
| Pretended | 49 answers |
| Alleged. | 49 answers |
| Verbal | 50 answers |
| Token | 58 answers |
| supposed | 64 answers |
| Evident | 70 answers |
| APPARENT ___ | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OSTENSIBLE (5)
But man, even to himself, is a cryptographic page, having an ostensible writing, and another between the lines.
This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject.
Operas are given only on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with three days of ostensible rest per week, and two teams to do the four operas; but the ostensible rest is devoted largely to rehearsing.
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtile process than the ostensible one.
The word was _blunder_; and as Harriet exultingly proclaimed it, there was a blush on Jane’s cheek which gave it a meaning not otherwise ostensible.
Quotes with OSTENSIBLE (3)
If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge come from? A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the ways in which it leads to suffering, only reinforces capitalist realism. Poverty, famine and war can be presented as an inevitable part of reality, while the hope that these forms of suffering could be eliminated easily painted as naive utopianism. Capitalist realism can only be threa…
The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture.
At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.