outwardly
advUK /ˈaʊtwədli/ · US /ˈaʊtwɚdli/
Etymology From Middle English outwardly, outwardli, utwardliche, equivalent to outward + -ly.
1
Externally or on the outside, or on the surface.
- The terrorist was outwardly a bank clerk.
- If only she would wake and close her mouth, mentally prayed the outwardly unflinching girl. Later the doctor came, and sheltered by his presence the sick woman's husband stood in the doorway.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 208:
2
Toward the outside
- Synonyms
- apparently, superficially, to all appearances