Off-coloured

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the correct, desired, or pure colour tainted or stained.

    "The photograph was certainly very off-coloured. An unkind critic might easily have misinterpreted that dim surface."

Example

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"The photograph was certainly very off-coloured. An unkind critic might easily have misinterpreted that dim surface."

Etymology

From off- + coloured.

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