Example sentences for: off-color

How can you use “off-color” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Forgetting that the original Dolittle was also panned, critics pine for "the good old days of children's movies" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). They lament the remake's addition of "a witless barrage of off-color bathroom humor" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) and its use of sophisticated computer graphics to make cute animals engage in sexual innuendo.

  • Also, please forgive me for the off-color stories I told at tea last week.

  • That the original lyrics of "Tutti Frutti" were not just off-color but full of, as Miller puts it, "thinly veiled anal eroticism"?

  • Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).

  • What I am very gently trying to get at is: I don't think the phrase "spread its legs" has quite entered the off-color oversoul.


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