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colourable
adjective
law UKspecialized(UScolorable)uk /ˈkʌl.ə.rə.bəl/ us /ˈkʌl.ɚ.ə.bəl/
seeming to be true, or able to be believed:
colourable claimThe squatters had no colourable claim to occupy the land.
I have no doubt their argument is colourable, or else they wouldn't have won.
He knew that he had no colourable legal claim against his former employer.
The evidence failed to establish that their purpose was false or colourable.
The government agrees that the defendant has a colourable defence.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Believable
barely credible
believable
believably
convincing
convincingly
credible
credibly
plausibility
plausible
plausible deniability
plausibly
shallow
shallowly
thinkable
true to life
unconvincingly
Synonym
plausible
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