ostensible

Adjective

• represented or appearing as such; pretended
  • His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity
    

• appearing as such but not necessarily so
  • for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent
    
  • the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies
    
  • the ostensible truth of their theories
    
  • his seeming honesty
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ostensive , apparent(a) , seeming(a)