| 单词 | colour of law |
| 释义 | colour of law (once / 844237 pages) n WORD FAMILY colour of law USAGE EXAMPLESThey strove by colour of law and by illegal force to stamp out in Tryon County the last spark of liberty, of manhood among us. Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William), The Little Red Foot(2011) "So perish all the King's rebels," cried Westerhall loudly, as it were, to give the black deed a colour of law. Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford), The Men of the Moss-Hags—Being a hi...(2010) What is your . . . but a knot of thieves, who pillage the nation under colour of law, and enrich themselves with the wreck of their country? Smollett, T. (Tobias), The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Gre...(2010) n a mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law Syn|Hyper color of law color, colour, gloss, semblance an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading |
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