ADJECTIVE
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in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent
an off-color joke
an indelicate remark
How To Use off-colour In A Sentence
- He's still off-colour today, but submits to a meeting anyway.
- Santos pointed to his young squad, with 18-year-old American starlet Freddie Adu making his European debut, for part of the reason for his side's off-colour performance.
- I've been off-colour and not-blogging, apologies; here's a bunch of TV things quickly that bear further investigation.
- With this funky off-colour skein, I am suspicious that either someone returned the yarn after peeling off the label or there was a mix-up in the mill, because the colour variation is really different.
- Late yesterday afternoon I noticed that a few of the scudding-by clouds were off-colour, a bit brown.
- For three weeks Maurice felt off-colour but did not have any dramatic symptoms.
- When the waiter appeared he was lying in bed, and explained he was feeling off-colour. THE ENDLESS GAME
- She's been feeling a bit off-colour lately.
- Since I was very young, whenever I'm off-colour and feverish I have the following recurring vision as I wander confusedly in the no-man's land between consciousness and sleep.
- A brief-wearing man finds boxers poncy, thinks of himself as one of the lads, would never moisturise, likes the odd off-colour joke and is basically deeply square.