How to Use off-color in a Sentence

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• The gifts are usually a little bit off-color, though not always.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• Sure, high, off-color rivers can be confusing and hard to read, but fish are still biting in these conditions.
  — Tim Romano, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2024
• The show quickly rose in the ratings — often rivaling Winfrey — thanks to its off-color brand of content and on-screen fights.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
• Your containers also need drainage holes in the bottom or water can back up in the pots and cause your plants to stop growing with off-color foliage.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
• The prize endorsement came from Paul McCartney, whose pitch was to-the-point and surprisingly off-color.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
• In Las Vegas casinos, expect adult humor and off-color jokes.
  — Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
• Those off-color cover versions make for one of the more outrageous bits in a film that rarely takes its ostensibly offensive routines far enough.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• Inevitably, Uncle Joe makes some off-color political comments, Grandpa falls asleep at the table, and the kids ask impatiently if they can be excused.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 23 Nov. 2023
• There was plenty of anti-Trump motion from the rap world, but his off-color energy and economy-first ethos appealed to a segment of hip-hop fans that ultimately aren’t that concerned with much more than money and bravado.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• Midway through the second season, Roman’s Gerri-baiting and his off-color jokes, and Gerri’s snappy retorts, had morphed into a queasy dominatrix-submissive scenario.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• However, unfortunately writers' rooms were often off-color places, especially more than 20 years ago.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024