Doth the master make any bargaine, or dispatch that pleaseth not? it is immediately smothered and suppressed, soone after forging causes, and devising colourable excuses, to excuse the want of execution or answer.
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Colourable
//ˈkʌləɹəb(ə)l//
Synonyms for "colourable"
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7 translations across 5 languages.
Czech
1 entries- obarvitelný adj (that can be coloured)
French
2 entries- colorable adj (that can be coloured)
- coloriable adj (that can be coloured)
Malay
1 entries- boleh warna adj (that can be coloured)
Romanian
1 entries- colorabil adj (that can be coloured)
Spanish
2 entries- colorado adj (specious)
- coloreable adj (that can be coloured)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
they told him their comming was for some extraordinary tooles and shift of apparell; by this colourable excuse, they obtained 6. or 7. more to their confederacie […].
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These three examples have what may be called a 'colourable' claim for a public justification: they do not appear to us as checkerboard statues because, looking at the distinctions they draw, we presume the required justification does exist.
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Glauce, what needs this colourable word, / To cloke the cause, that hath it selfe bewrayd?
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