Usually means: Not appropriate; slightly unwell, indecent.
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  1. off-colour, off-colour: Collins English Dictionary
  2. off-colour: Vocabulary.com
  3. off-colour: Wordnik
  4. off-colour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. off-colour: Wiktionary
  6. off-colour: Dictionary.com
  7. off-colour: Rhymezone
  8. off-colour: FreeDictionary.org
  9. off-colour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. off-colour: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off-colour: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off-colour: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of off-color [Of the wrong color.]

Similar:
off white, colory, orangeish, varicoloured, écru, high colour, fawncoloured, fleshcoloured, wine-coloured, orangy, more...

Opposite:
on-color, normal, healthy, appropriate, fitting

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Similar:
off white, colory, orangeish, varicoloured, écru, high colour, fawncoloured, fleshcoloured, wine-coloured, orangy, more...

Opposite:
on-color, normal, healthy, appropriate, fitting



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