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Definition of "ostensive" [os•ten•sive]

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ostensive" in a sentence
  • "Therefore we can not tolerate such an ostensive rejection of western civilization, and its key values."
  • "The free traders gave it away for the ostensive reason of access to a billion new customers in China."
  • "The Chinese fueled Clinton's apparent economic success, not the ostensive 'sound' economic policies Clinton practiced."