Synset

from appearances alone
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apparently

on the face of it

ostensibly

seemingly

sample sentences

"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
"on the face of it the problem seems minor"