seemingly

seemingly
    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}]
    

Seemingly \Seem"ing*ly\, adv.
   In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.
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         This the father seemingly complied with. --Addison.
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48 Moby Thesaurus words for "seemingly":
      allegedly, apparently, artificially, as it seems, as it were,
      assumably, assumedly, assumptively, at first sight, conceivably,
      erroneously, evidently, factitiously, falsely, feasibly,
      in name only, in seeming, nominally, officially, on the surface,
      ostensibly, outwardly, plausibly, possibly, presumably, presumedly,
      presumptively, prima facie, professedly, purportedly, quasi,
      reputedly, speciously, spuriously, superficially, supposably,
      supposedly, suppositionally, supposititiously, synthetically,
      to all appearances, to all seeming, to the eye, truthlessly,
      ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously