Ostensible
Crossword Clue and Answers
Looking for answers to the "Ostensible" crossword clue? it's your lucky day, we have them! Today we have 27 crossword solutions for Ostensible.
We most recently saw this clue in The Guardian Quick.
We deem Ostensible to be a COMMON crossword clue as we've seen it included in several crossword publications.
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Publications
- The Guardian Quick - Wednesday, 25 Aug 2021
- The Sun Cryptic - Saturday, 10 Jul 2021
- The New York Times Crossword - Monday, 1 Mar 2021
- The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 22 Nov 2020
- The Guardian Speedy - Sunday, 15 Apr 2018
Crossword Answers
4 letters
FAKE
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player
5 letters
QUASI
Having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi contract"
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STATED
Declared as fact; explicitly stated
AVOWED
Openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist"
LIKELY
Expected to become or be; in prospect; "potential clients"
LIKELY
Expected to become or be; in prospect; "potential clients"
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SEEMING
Appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
NOTABLE
A celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries"
8 letters
SPECIOUS
Plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
PALPABLE
Can be felt by palpation; "a palpable tumor"
APPARENT
Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
ASSERTED
Confidently declared to be so; "the asserted value of the painting"
DELUSIVE
Inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
SEMBLANT
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IMAGINARY
Not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
OSTENSIVE
Represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
PROFESSED
Openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist"
DECEPTIVE
Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
COLORABLE
11 letters
SUPERFICIAL
Of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
SUPERFICIAL
Of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
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DEMONSTRATIVE
A pronoun that points out an intended referent