Sentence examples for ostensibly bad from inspiring English sources

It's barely even a nudge on from the Viva Ned Flanders episode from 1999, where Homer got drunk and married a cocktail waitress – something ostensibly bad happened; 10 minutes later it was fixed; a week after that, it was forgotten for ever.

This is a world where good people can be forced into acting badly, and ostensibly bad people perform acts of kindness and heroism; where the guilty go free and decent men are spurned and punished; where the wise are baffled and the stupid go accidentally to the heart of the matter.

Sororities have an ostensibly bad reputation.

Watching people who are ostensibly good do bad things, and kind of root for them to get away with it, and know that it's bad and yet…" I hate it when Don gets caught out, I say.

Ostensibly this is bad news for Alex Hales, though it remains possible England may take Hameed and Hales on the Test tour.

While this ostensibly weeds out the bad sellers, eBay is also looking to move towards an instant pay model, thereby using its PayPal service to its fullest and gaining minute profits along the way.

Rhee's teacher and principal firings drew enough national attention to land her on the cover of Time magazine, holding a broom -- ostensibly sweeping out the bad teachers.

Ostensibly, this has been a bad week for England.

Not bad for an ostensibly lightweight novel by an unknown author.

Well, looking on the bright side, many would have escaped the plague of bad luck that ostensibly attends productions of "the Scottish play," as it is referred to by theatrical folk to keep the fabled ill fortune at bay.

After ostensibly getting rid of the bad guys, they are married.