ostensive
Example Sentences
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Evidently, it isn’t easy ending the lives of others, even those who pose an ostensive threat to national security, survive a five-car collision or mildly resemble Drake.
From Salon
Rather, he is ostensively defining what he calls “the smug style in American liberalism.”
And Israel holds undeniable power over the lives of West Bank's Palestinians, despite their ostensive autonomy.
From US News
It serves mainly to provide the regime with ostensive evidence of its power and technological progress.
From Project Gutenberg
He jerked forward in his chair, "Except, of course, ostensively."
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
