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colourable

/ ˈkʌlərəbəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being coloured
  2. appearing to be true; plausible

    a colourable excuse

  3. pretended; feigned

    colourable affection

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌcolouraˈbility, noun
  • ˈcolourably, adverb
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Example Sentences

To give a colourable aspect to their hypothesis, the witnesses affirm that Lévi was a high-grade Mason.

It rather looks as if the two were not genuine oleographs but only colourable imitations.

Now, we all know how many colourable claims of right are created by prescription.

But it is quite useless to look for any colourable pretext for German remorselessness in this matter.

All of them show the basest ingratitude under a colourable cloak of human excuse.

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