seemingly

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Debi McComber, 37, a longtime resident of the mobile home park, said this morning that she and her neighbors were stunned by the arrest of Huckaby, whom she described as a seemingly normal and "nice" parent who mostly kept to herself.

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  1. In a seeming manner; apparently; ostensibly; in appearance; in show; in semblance. This the father seemingly complied with. Addison, Freeholder, No. 43. This seemingly simple feeling. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol. (2d ed.), § 60.

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  • Like the awakening call that comes to a man in a sound sleep--seemingly as a far-off whisper that gradually gathers volume and strength until finally the sleeper awakes with a start to find someone standing directly over him, loudly and insistently calling his name--so Slim came to a realization of the strange series of sounds that were being repeated within a few feet of him Could it possibly be only the crackling of the steam-pipe that ran along the smokestack to the whistle--a crackling merely from the pressure within? —  The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service
  • He is listening to you Doubtless, some sort of an explanation would have followed this strange discovery, for that we had made it was very obvious, but at that moment a man--seemingly, from his dress, a priest of high rank--came into the hall hurriedly, and very earnestly delivered a communication to Itzacoatl in low, excited tones. —  The Aztec Treasure-House
  • At one end, in a massive oaken armchair, sat an old man--seemingly a very old man, for he was bent and wrinkled, with thin white hair hanging down upon his shoulders. —  The Colonel's Dream
  • It was a most extraordinary affair altogether, for they could get no intelligible explanation from the patient even after they had with infinite trouble and care--seemingly at the cost of the acutest agony to Henderson--conveyed him to his own room and laid him on his bed. —  The Missing Merchantman
  • Here is, seemingly, a quarrel to the death, in the time of CHARLES THE SECOND. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892
 

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