off-colour

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

off-colour - in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke" indelicate, off-color tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste

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off-colour

adjective

1. ill, poorly (informal), sick, funny (informal), run down, under par, queer, unhealthy, washed out, unwell, queasy, out of sorts, under the weather (informal), off form, indisposed, peaky, not up to par, green about the gills, peely-wally (Scot.) He felt off-colour but did not have any dramatic symptoms.

2. smutty, dirty, crude, obscene, coarse, filthy, indecent, vulgar, blue, improper, pornographic, raunchy (U.S. slang), suggestive, racy, lewd, risqué, X-rated (informal), bawdy, salacious, prurient, off colour, indelicate his off-colour jokes about women

Translations

off-colour off-color (US) [ˌɒfˈkʌləʳ] ADJ

1. (Brit) (= ill) → indispuesto, pachucho(Sp)
to feel/be off-colour → sentirse/estar indispuesto

2. [joke, remark] → subido de tono

off-colour off-color (Am) [ˌɒfˈkʌləʳ] adj

a. (Brit) (ill) → malato/a, indisposto/a
to feel off-colour → sentirsi poco bene

b. (joke, remark) → spinto/a, osé inv