off-coloured
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]off-coloured (comparative more off-coloured, superlative most off-coloured)
- Having the correct, desired, or pure colour tainted or stained.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World”, in The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 55:
- The photograph was certainly very off-coloured. An unkind critic might easily have misinterpreted that dim surface.