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off-color

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off-col·or (ôfklr, f-)
adj.
1. Exhibiting bad taste: an off-color joke.
2. Varying from the usual, expected, or required color.
3. Not in good health or spirits.
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Adj.1.off-color - in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"
indelicate, off-colour
tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste
2.off-color - humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
bawdy, ribald
dirty - (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"
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