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Vocab: Ostensible

Wednesday Nov 5, 2008 – by

ostensible \ah-STEN-suh-bul\, adjective

Represented or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.

We might define play as pleasurable activity in which the means is more important than the ostensible end.
– Karl Meninger, Love Against Hate

Resource: Dictionary.com

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  1. avatar NinaG says:
    November 5, 2008 at 11:48 am

    can anyone else use this word in a sentence…i’m not grasping this one

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