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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are ulterior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing hidden motives or intentions behind actions or statements.
Example: "His actions seemed generous, but I couldn't shake the feeling that there were ulterior motives at play."
Alternatives: "hidden agendas" or "concealed intentions".
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are ulterior
adjective
Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
Exact(8)
Given the [financial] saving, one can only imagine there are ulterior motives to scrapping their funding.
These microspheres are ulterior physically entrapped within a thermoresponsive hydrogel based on poly N-isopropylacrylamide-co-hydroxyethylacrylamide) copoly N-isopropylacrylamide-co-hydroxyethylacrylamidede.
Today, he told me, there are ulterior motives — to be able to leave another country and come to Israel, "to be recognized here as Jewish, to be able to get married".
That fictional "cliché expert" of Frank Sullivan's in the 1930s purged platitudes and banished bromides from our language during the linguistic heyday of The New Yorker magazine: "My motives are ulterior, my circles are vicious, my retainers are faithful.
"I have no reason to think there are ulterior motives," Mr. Jonas said, "but there may be concern that there's another shoe to drop, another quality issue coming and maybe that's why the stock is down as much as it is".
There are ulterior motives behind the industry's move to self-regulate, with the specter of federal and state regulation looming.
Similar(52)
There may be ulterior motives.
If there are perceived to be ulterior motives, then the bad will generated will completely dwarf the positive aspects".
He wrote that "games nearly always are destructive, inasmuch as their dynamic is ulterior, and the ulterior quality is the antithesis to intimacy".
A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Liu Jianchao, said there were "ulterior motives" behind efforts to link Sudan with the Games.
"I may sound like a conspiracy theorist," the man said, asking Mr. Spitzer whether he thought there might be "ulterior motives" behind the timing of the disclosure of the prostitution ring that he said was leaked to the news media.
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