colourable

/ ˈkʌlərəbəl /

adjective

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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