ostensibly

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He spoke in French, ostensibly for the benefit of M. L'Hermier des Plantes.

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  1. In an ostensible manner; as shown or pretended; professedly. But from the official documents it is clear that their intercourse, though ostensibly amicable, was in reality hostile. Macaulay, Machiavelli. Unwise resistance … is too frequently the primary source of the mischief ostensibly arising from the opposite policy. Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 202.

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