off-color
Origin of off-color
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Contemporary Examples of off-color
Their job is to fire you up, whether via jaw-dropping sports highlight or off-color pronouncement.
Meanwhile, Farage has been slammed for his own off-color remarks about Romanians.
The n-word might out of bounds, but an off-color comment, racial in tone?
Over his long career, Rush Limbaugh has suffered astonishingly little blowback for off-color remarks.
But this is what Edwards has been relegated to: a morbid curiosity, a cautionary tale, a punchline to off-color jokes.
Historical Examples of off-color
He tried to tell me an off-color story and forgot the point of it, if indeed it had any point.
Europe RevisedIrvin S. Cobb
Take away these off-color peaches and bring me something first class.
Jupiter LightsConstance Fenimore Woolson
They were off-color eyes, like amber or a light wine, fringed with long black lashes.
LegacyJames H Schmitz
The painted stone may be detected by washing it with alcohol, when the dye will be removed and the off-color will become apparent.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving PublicFrank Bertram Wade
A thing to be forgotten always is the off-color story with which some people persist in polluting the atmosphere.
The Book of CourageJohn Thomson Faris