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class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1936</b></span>, <cite>Chemical Industries</cite>, volume <span class="None" lang="und">38</span>, page <span class="None" lang="und">400</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Careful control of mixing at the central point reduces the possibility of <b>off-color</b> paint in some booths, and uniform pressure at the spray guns is easily maintained.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2000</b></span>, John Kenkel, <cite>Chemistry: An Industry-Based Laboratory Manual</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">74</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Because of his reputable work with <b>off-color</b> and contaminated materials, I have asked Dr. Otto Speck of Colorama Consultants to give us some direction.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2001</b></span>, <cite>SPE/ANTEC 2001 Proceedings</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">3391</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">After some amount of time elapses, the transition phase from color A to color B will yield <b>off-color</b> product until the color change for color B is fully established in the system.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic" title="Appendix:Glossary">idiomatic</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/dirty" title="dirty">Dirty</a>, <a href="/wiki/vulgar" title="vulgar">vulgar</a> or <a href="/wiki/obscene" title="obscene">obscene</a>, especially in a way that is <a href="/wiki/unpleasant" title="unpleasant">unpleasant</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">He told an <b>off-color</b> joke.</i></div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1996</b></span>, James Lambert, <cite>The Macquarie Book of Slang</cite>, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page xii:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">[T]he equating of the female genitalia with a wound caused by an axe is a very <b>off-colour</b> metaphor.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2010</b></span>, Charles Carver, <cite>Brann and the Iconoclast</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">54</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">He seems to have crawled off the earth after his Texas itinerary, in company with the alleged ex-nun whom he was carting around the country to pander to the prurient appetites of <b>off-color</b> dames by relating naughty tales of desiring nuns and accommodating priests.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2012</b></span>, Gary L. Fanning, <cite>Things I Didn't Learn in Medical School</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Overly risqué jokes and foul language are invitations to being charged with sexual abuse. I must admit to enjoying humor a great deal, and I am guilty of sharing all kinds of stories, some of which are slightly <b>off-color</b>, but far from lewd.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic" title="Appendix:Glossary">idiomatic</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/different" title="different">Different</a> than <a href="/wiki/usual" title="usual">usual</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2007</b></span>, Kevin Courrier, <cite>Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Since Zappa treats subject matter, dialogue, and song as musical material, <i>Permanent Damage</i> has a casual <b>off-color</b> quality. <i>Permanent Damage</i> and <i>An Evening with Wild Man Fischer</i> were works of oddball sociology as much as they were rock and roll records.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2014</b></span>, Anne W. Mhorelund, <cite>Broken Branch: The Patchie Creek Story</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">691</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Even the roadside sights seemed a little <b>off-color</b> and was just beginning to lose some of its summer luster.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2015</b></span>, Kristi Charish, <cite>Owl and the Japanese Circus</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">162</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">There was something funny about his eyes . . . something <b>off-color</b> and old . . . but he pulled the shades back down before I could get a good look.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic" title="Appendix:Glossary">idiomatic</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> Feeling mildly <a href="/wiki/unwell" title="unwell">unwell</a>. <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonym:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/under_the_weather#English" title="under the weather">under the weather</a></span></span></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">I feel a bit <b>off-color</b> today.</i></div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2009</b></span>, Kalpana M. Naghnoor, <cite>Abstruse</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">111</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Nihal Sheshan, one of our officers, tells me our chief has been a little <b>off-color</b> of late. Kind of disoriented sometimes.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2010</b></span>, Murray Stein, <cite>Jungian Psychoanalysis: Working in the Spirit of Carl Jung</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">311</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">One evening she was feeling <b>off-color</b> with a virus and was settled comfortably in the sitting-room.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=off-color&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_the_wrong_color"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of the wrong color</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of the wrong color"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/farblich#German" title="farblich">farblich</a> <a href="/wiki/abweichend#German" title="abweichend">abweichend</a></span></li> <li>Hungarian: <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=sz%C3%ADnhib%C3%A1s&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="színhibás (page does not exist)">színhibás</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=elsz%C3%ADnez%C5%91d%C3%B6tt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="elszíneződött (page does not exist)">elszíneződött</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/elsz%C3%ADnez%C5%91d%C3%B6tt" class="extiw" title="hu:elszíneződött">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=sz%C3%ADnehagyott&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="színehagyott (page does not exist)">színehagyott</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/sz%C3%ADnehagyott" class="extiw" title="hu:színehagyott">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=kifakult&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kifakult (page does not exist)">kifakult</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/kifakult" class="extiw" title="hu:kifakult">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/fak%C3%B3#Hungarian" title="fakó">fakó</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/fak%C3%B3" class="extiw" title="hu:fakó">(hu)</a></span></li> <li>Latin: <span class="Latn" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/decolor#Latin" title="decolor">dēcolor</a></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-dirty,_vulgar_or_obscene,_especially_in_a_way_that_is_unpleasant"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">dirty, vulgar or obscene, especially in a way that is unpleasant</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="dirty, vulgar or obscene, especially in a way that is unpleasant"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/dreckig#German" title="dreckig">dreckig</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/dreckig" class="extiw" title="de:dreckig">(de)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/schmutzig#German" title="schmutzig">schmutzig</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/schmutzig" class="extiw" title="de:schmutzig">(de)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/frivol#German" title="frivol">frivol</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/frivol" class="extiw" title="de:frivol">(de)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/schl%C3%BCpfrig#German" title="schlüpfrig">schlüpfrig</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/schl%C3%BCpfrig" class="extiw" title="de:schlüpfrig">(de)</a></span></li> <li>Hungarian: <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=szalonk%C3%A9ptelen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="szalonképtelen (page does not exist)">szalonképtelen</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/szalonk%C3%A9ptelen" class="extiw" title="hu:szalonképtelen">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/illetlen#Hungarian" title="illetlen">illetlen</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/illetlen" class="extiw" title="hu:illetlen">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%ADzl%C3%A9stelen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ízléstelen (page does not exist)">ízléstelen</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%ADzl%C3%A9stelen" class="extiw" title="hu:ízléstelen">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/malac#Hungarian" title="malac">malac</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/malac" class="extiw" title="hu:malac">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=sikaml%C3%B3s&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="sikamlós (page does not exist)">sikamlós</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/sikaml%C3%B3s" class="extiw" title="hu:sikamlós">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/pik%C3%A1ns#Hungarian" title="pikáns">pikáns</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/pik%C3%A1ns" class="extiw" title="hu:pikáns">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/frivol#Hungarian" title="frivol">frivol</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/frivol" class="extiw" title="hu:frivol">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=obszc%C3%A9n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="obszcén (page does not exist)">obszcén</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/obszc%C3%A9n" class="extiw" title="hu:obszcén">(hu)</a></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-different_than_usual"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">different than usual</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="different than usual"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" 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