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colour of law
Overview of noun colour-of-law
The noun colour of law has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. color of law, colour of law -- (a mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law; "the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun colour-of-law
1 sense of colour of law
Sense 1
color of law, colour of law
=> semblance, gloss, color, colour
=> appearance, visual aspect
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun colour-of-law
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun colour-of-law
1 sense of colour of law
Sense 1
color of law, colour of law
=> semblance, gloss, color, colour
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Attributes of noun colour-of-law
Derived Forms of noun colour-of-law
Domain of noun colour-of-law
1 sense of colour of law
Sense 1
color of law, colour of law
TOPIC>(noun) law#2, jurisprudence#2
Domain Terms of noun colour-of-law
Familiarity of noun colour-of-law
colour of law used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun colour-of-law
1 sense of colour of law
Sense 1
color of law, colour of law
> semblance, gloss, color, colour
=> color of law, colour of law
=> simulacrum
=> face value
=> guise, pretense, pretence, pretext
=> disguise, camouflage
=> verisimilitude
Meronyms of noun colour-of-law
1 sense of colour of law
Holonyms of noun colour-of-law
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