[adverb] [not gradable] [formal]He has spent the past three months in Florida, ostensibly for medical treatment, but in actual fact to avoid prosecution.Her novel is ostensibly about a girl growing up in post-war Brooklyn, but it offers more than just a memoir of the period.
OSTENSIBLY
Meaning of OSTENSIBLY in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012