Words similar to off-color

Example sentences for: off-color

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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.
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).
I am, personally, a big fan of the well-chosen off-color remark.
Also, please forgive me for the off-color stories I told at tea last week.