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Значения термина off-color на английском

In violation of good taste even verging on the indecent.

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Humorously vulgar.

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Examples for "indelicate"
Examples for "indelicate"
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Your over delicate ladies are the most indelicate people in the world.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
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The French are an indelicate people; they will spit upon any place.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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Remaining in the room while a lady was examined was obviously indelicate.
Shadows in Bronze
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None of your swaggerers, and nothing at all indelicate in her motions.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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In terms most indelicate and, frankly, alarming for any father to hear.
Imprudence
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This is just a little off-colour for your 11-year-old eyes,' she recalled.
News.com.au
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I don't want any of your off-colour stuff from the Drones' smoking-room.
Right Ho, Jeeves
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The room alternates between off-colour jokes, riotous laughter, and rapt attention.
BBC
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Further weighing on his standing, Weselsky has made some off-colour comments in public.
Reuters
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After 27 years of off-colour surname-related jokes I'll be taking up Geffin instead.
The Guardian
Использование термина off-color на английском
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She learned to take a joke off-color and match it in shade.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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There were the occasional off-color asides he would offer at inopportune times.
The double bind
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My fellow passenger overlooked the remark, as if finding it slightly off-color.
The ministry of pain
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And he made an off-color joke that had the convention organizers wincing.
The Guardian
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I was stuck, an off-color thread weaved into the city's bland fabric.
Mysterious Skin
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More important, she understood him and even appreciated his off-color sense of humor.
The apostle
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Today I find only a single importation of the off-color sort:
The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
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Further weighing on his standing, Weselsky has made some off-color comments in public.
Reuters
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We like a bit of off-color fun once in a while.
Wired
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Yeah, yeah, ex-wife and current squeeze both there, nothing too off-color.
End of Watch
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There's a telephone, and that's your protection if anything looks off-color.
Skyrider
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Lewis has caused stirs in the past with off-color remarks.
Reuters
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He could almost hear his marksmanship instructor now, cackling off-color epithets in his honor.
While galileo preys
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One is reminded of an off-color story, and tells it.
The new yorker
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Only a scattering few that threw back to off-color shades.
The Settling of the Sage
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He stared at the off-color pictures of eggs and bacon, the smiley-face pancake meals.
Cold springs
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