on the face of it

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on the face of it

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    adv.

  • from appearances alone; apparently, seemingly, ostensibly

    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