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[ adverb ] from appearances alone
Synonyms Examples "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land" "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned" "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy Used in print (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)On_the_face_of_it , it is because he employs deductive techniques alien to official police routine . Related terms |
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