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
• The behavior, the plaintiffs say, would worsen whenever the CEO issued one of his many off-color tweets.
  — Sarah Green Carmichael, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
• 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
• Marvel dropped a full trailer in April that was chock-full of off-color witticisms, meta-references, slo-mo action, and a generous sprinkling of F-bombs.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 July 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
• Model Janice Dickinson, who served as a judge for several seasons, has come under fire for her harsh critiques and off-color remarks.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 1 May 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
• Among the 25-year-old right-wing propagandist’s multitude of off-color comments is his suggestion the Holocaust may be exaggerated.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 May 2024
• 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
• But his proposals are muffled by the din of media outrage that greets his off-color jokes, irreverent behavior, intentional trolling of liberal sensibilities, and odd asides.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 May 2024
• However, unfortunately writers' rooms were often off-color places, especially more than 20 years ago.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024