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- adjective Alternative spelling of
off-color .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent
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Examples
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By the way I am new to the podcast but am enjoying all the off-colour (with a u) humor.
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The SNP government could be doing something more worthwhile with their time than organising empty summits on sectarianism and jailing people for singing off-colour songs and saying unpleasant things to each other.
Another own goal for football's dummies | Kevin McKenna 2011
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I'm guessing that RapeLay is * not* a 'realistic' portrayal of violent sex crime (rather, kinky sex with an intentionally off-colour plot) in the way Manhunt * was* a 'realistic' portrayal of cold-blooded murder.
Was RapeLay 'Asking For It'? SVGL 2009
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These days, the press would be calling them out at their first off-colour remark – never resting until they'd brought them down for good.
Gwyneth's choice of song in Glee was a bit off. But that's all | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Here, though, is what has been engaging the SNP government while this obscenity on its doorstep has gradually been revealed: a 40-point plan that will jail poor people for singing off-colour songs; fighting the Crown Estates for more revenue and expressing outrage that the Electoral Commission may be put in charge of the independence referendum.
A chilling and cruel tale of two cities | Kevin McKenna 2011
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But maybe it's more interesting to wonder what Green thought the unhindered availability of Top Totty might lead to: did she imagine the mere sight of an off-colour pump would turn hitherto respectful blokes into leering nightmares, sprawling over the bar and offering every woman who dared to trespass on their territory a Slow Comfortable Screw on the Beach?
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Australian workplace/s did not appear overly sensitive about ‘off-colour jokes’?
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Apparently not - I ponder with wonder how PC the US must be and fear for what happened when you heard a properly off-colour Australian joke outside of work …
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Singing off-colour songs at Celtic and Rangers matches will send hundreds more deprived young males to prison, there to begin their apprenticeships of a career in real crime.
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Then, he was at the centre of a media maelstrom that spiralled from off-colour, off-camera comments about a female linesman into a furious row about sexism in sport that ended in the departure of the broadcaster's two biggest names.
Barney Francis: 'Football punditry is an absolute art form' 2011
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