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What does colourable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word colourable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Colourful.
  2. Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.
  3. (now rare, sometimes law) Deceptive; fake, misleading.
    1. (law) In appearance only; not in reality what it purports to be, hence counterfeit, feigned.
  4. That can be coloured.
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There is room to refuse Senate acceptance of Bill S-4 on the simple grounds that it is colourable legislation.
Tourists are also catered for in a native block-stamped variety, which is at least a colourable imitation of the real article.
There was no such similarity or colourable imitation in the title as to support the claim.
In other words, the choice may not be simply between a bona fide claim and a colourable claim, for example.
There is not so much as a colourable pretence that any American had a hand in the matter.
He thought this was colourable, something invented after the event in order to give an excuse for not taking a man back who has been the subject of a reinstatement order.

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