outwardly

Example Sentences

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Outwardly unassuming and privately acerbic, Martin Gilmour teaches at a second-rate English university that, in his words, “tended to attract the stupid rich.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Outwardly, the answer to that appears to be yes and that worries some in the party.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025

“Inwardly, he was sensitive to the feelings and needs of others. Outwardly, he was fearless and fierce in his commitment to friends, family and community,” his sister Carmen Freeman said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024

Outwardly, these two are leading lives of quiet desperation, though because this is an Aki Kaurismaki movie, their despair comes with great comic timing.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2023

Outwardly, Hickock seemed to one and all an unusually untroubled young man.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote