Crossword-Solution: COLOURABLE
We have 12 clues for the answer “COLOURABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ben trovato | 8 answers |
| on the cards | 10 answers |
| *To be expected | 11 answers |
| plausible | 15 answers |
| specious | 28 answers |
| Probable | 61 answers |
| hopeful | 62 answers |
| young person | 62 answers |
| Promising | 64 answers |
| Young-ster | 68 answers |
| Apt | 74 answers |
| True | 102 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLOURABLE (5)
The young people were domiciled for the time being at Dusseldorf, where Alfred had thought he would most like to begin his Continental student-career, and where Julia, upon the more or less colourable pretext of learning the language, might enjoy the mingled freedom and occupation of a home of her own.
This was a circumstance which gave my good brother great pleasure, as it afforded a colourable appearance to his story.
Wherefore our pleasure is not to be hereafter any more molested with such her disguise and colourable letters, but wish for her that it may please our Lord to grant her His grace to be towards Him as she ought to be; then shall she the sooner be towards us as becometh her.
And then her Grace said: 'I note especially to my great discomfort [which I shall, nevertheless, willingly obey] that the 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 God Almighty, and so let it pass.
Given a person whose life was regarded as possibly dangerous to the State, the public conscience was entirely satisfied if any colourable pretext could be found on which the legal authorities could profess to find warrant for a death sentence, though the proof, on modern theories of evidence, might be wholly inconclusive.