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off-col·or
 off-color
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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: |
adjective |
definition 1: |
not of the standard or required color.
- similar words:
- discolored, faded, garish, grayed, nonstandard, off, off-key, wrong, yellowed
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definition 2: |
improper or in poor taste, esp. of humor or innuendo dealing with sex.
- synonyms:
- bawdy, blue, dirty, racy, risqué, suggestive
- similar words:
- earthy, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, naughty, obscene, salacious, salty, scabrous, smutty, unseemly
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definition 3: |
of unhealthy complexion; looking ill or downcast.
- synonyms:
- green, peaked, wan, washed-out
- similar words:
- ashen, downcast, draggy, drained, ill, jaundiced, out of sorts, pale, run-down, sickly, unwell, weak
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related words: |
bawdy, spicy, vulgar |
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