Define Ostensibly Meaning

Ostensibly
Outwardly, Supposedly. The most likely assumption

The ostensibly heterosexual man keeps threatening to shove things up his co-workers asses. The No Child Left Behind Act is ostensibly for improving education.
By Niki
Ostensible
appearing as such but not necessarily so

the second horse was the ostensible winner

pouser

By Peggy
Ostensible
Some fake ass BS that a poseur fronts to pass themself off as more than just a tosser.

By Nellie
Ostensible Layer
an unfortunate and rather concrete layer of reality created as a coincidental byproduct of ambiguity in communication through an inadequately defined, poorly understood, and intentionally abused sub/urban vernacular.

on the ostensible layer, me & that ho are not together; however we still live together, have sex, and are engaged to be married next june.
By Lisabeth