Colorable [adjective]

Sports satisfy these requirements of substantial futility together with a colorable make-believe of purpose.

What colorable reason could be assigned, in a country so situated, for such vast augmentations of the military force?

If he asks, I shall contrive to find some colorable pretext, probably that you were jealous of me!

For no colorable dede or deceytful trompery can serue the excuse of any notable wyckednesse.

Men were also harassed with informations of intrusion upon scarce colorable titles.

The enclosed paper, No. 9, is the only colorable evidence of this which has come to my knowledge.

Has he any documents or proof to render the suspicion colorable?

Yet they could not dare to exercise this power except for a cause which was at least colorable in each case.

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.

All that, it was hinted, was a mere colorable contrivance to be used in case of detection.