on the face of it

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
on the face of it
    adv 1: from appearances alone; "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" [syn: {apparently}, {seemingly},
           {ostensibly}, {on the face of it}]
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