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Значения термина off-colour на английском

In violation of good taste even verging on the indecent.

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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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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
Использование термина off-colour на английском
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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
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There are weird creatures, off-colour jokes, and plenty of fantastical twists and turns.
The South African
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Meanwhile, Ulster used the off-colour remark as a teaching moment.
The Secret Crown (2010)
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John would make some slightly off-colour remark if he was in a sour mood.
A journey: my political life
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Even England looked off-colour, with a couple of dropped catches and some wayward bowling.
The Guardian
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He had a way with women, but cracked off-colour jokes.
The Guardian
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According to digger parlance it was "off-colour," and, therefore, not excessively valuable.
Six Months at the Cape
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Is every off-colour gag a contribution to rape culture or are jokes just jokes?
The Guardian
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It's off-colour, and you know that as well as I.'
The Firm of Girdlestone
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It certainly explained why she had been feeling a bit off-colour the last few days.
The viscount and the virgin
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But, unlike in Dunedin, this time they gave the off-colour All Blacks a real fright.
The Irish Times
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El Sayed had to put up with his share of off-colour jokes and mean-spirited comments.
Firewall
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