Synonyms for colorable
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kuhl-er-uh-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌl ər ə bəl |
Définition of colorable
- adj plausible
- He intended to play just enough to give a colorable reason for his presence.
- Extract from : « Steve Yeager » by William MacLeod Raine
- Now Myra and Mr. Lawanne are definite, colorable entities to me.
- Extract from : « The Hidden Places » by Bertrand W. Sinclair
- Yet they could not dare to exercise this power except for a cause which was at least colorable in each case.
- Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II » by John T. Morse
- Then she began to seek some colorable ground for what she had heard as she went past the screen behind which he had been working.
- Extract from : « The Emperor, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- The enclosed paper, No. 9, is the only colorable evidence of this which has come to my knowledge.
- Extract from : « The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. I (of 9) » by Thomas Jefferson
- For no colorable dede or deceytful trompery can serue the excuse of any notable wyckednesse.
- Extract from : « The Palace of Pleasure » by William Painter
- What colorable reason could be assigned, in a country so situated, for such vast augmentations of the military force?
- Extract from : « The Federalist Papers » by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
- Sports satisfy these requirements of substantial futility together with a colorable make-believe of purpose.
- Extract from : « The Theory of the Leisure Class » by Thorstein Veblen
- If he asks, I shall contrive to find some colorable pretext, probably that you were jealous of me!
- Extract from : « Letters of Two Brides » by Honore de Balzac
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- colossus
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- decolor
- decolorize
- decolors
- decorator colors
- discolor
- discoloration
- discolored
- eau de cologne
- ecological
- ecological community
- ecologist
- ecology
- ethnomusicology
- false colors
- flying colors
- give color to
- highly colored
- leather-colored
- lexicologist
- local color
- looking through rose-colored glasses
- many-colored
- more colorful
- multicolor
- multicolored
- neocolonialism
- off color
- off-color
- offcolor
- particolored
- penal colony
- rose-colored glasses
- super colossal
- super-colossal
- uncolored
- varicolored
- versicolor
- versicolored
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