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Meanings of off-color in English
In violation of good taste even verging on the indecent.
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Examples for "indelicate"
Examples for "indelicate"
1
Your over delicate ladies are the most indelicate people in the world.
2
The French are an indelicate people; they will spit upon any place.
3
Remaining in the room while a lady was examined was obviously indelicate.
4
None of your swaggerers, and nothing at all indelicate in her motions.
5
In terms most indelicate and, frankly, alarming for any father to hear.
1
This is just a little off-colour for your 11-year-old eyes,' she recalled.
2
I don't want any of your off-colour stuff from the Drones' smoking-room.
3
The room alternates between off-colour jokes, riotous laughter, and rapt attention.
4
Further weighing on his standing, Weselsky has made some off-colour comments in public.
5
After 27 years of off-colour surname-related jokes I'll be taking up Geffin instead.
Usage of off-color in English
1
She learned to take a joke off-color and match it in shade.
2
There were the occasional off-color asides he would offer at inopportune times.
3
My fellow passenger overlooked the remark, as if finding it slightly off-color.
4
And he made an off-color joke that had the convention organizers wincing.
5
I was stuck, an off-color thread weaved into the city's bland fabric.
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More important, she understood him and even appreciated his off-color sense of humor.
7
Today I find only a single importation of the off-color sort:
8
Further weighing on his standing, Weselsky has made some off-color comments in public.
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We like a bit of off-color fun once in a while.
10
Yeah, yeah, ex-wife and current squeeze both there, nothing too off-color.
11
There's a telephone, and that's your protection if anything looks off-color.
12
Lewis has caused stirs in the past with off-color remarks.
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He could almost hear his marksmanship instructor now, cackling off-color epithets in his honor.
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One is reminded of an off-color story, and tells it.
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Only a scattering few that threw back to off-color shades.
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He stared at the off-color pictures of eggs and bacon, the smiley-face pancake meals.