Definition of "colourable" [colourable]

• Colourful. (adjective)
• Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable. (adjective)
• Deceptive; fake, misleading. (adjective)
• That can be coloured. (adjective)

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• "Queen's Majesty is not pleased that I should molest her Highness with any more of my colourable letters, which, although they be termed colourable, yet not offending the Queen's Majesty, I must say for myself that it was the plain truth, even as I desire to be saved afore"
• "This authority is called colourable, and the officer in such cases is said to be an officer de facto; which intends an intermediate state between an exercise strictly lawful and one without such colour of right."
• "When, at length, they became really earnest in pressing President Krüger to grant a "colourable" measure of franchise reform -- to use Mr. Merriman's adjective -- it was for their own sake, and not for England's, that they worked."