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Adjective: off-colour  `óf'ku-lu(r)
Usage: Brit, Cdn (=off-color)
  1. In violation of good taste even verging on the indecent
    "an off-colour joke"; "an off-colour remark"
    - indelicate, off-color [US]
     
  2. Humorously vulgar
    "off-colour jokes"; "off-colour songs"
    - bawdy, off-color [US], ribald
     
  3. [Brit] Somewhat ill or prone to illness
    "my poor off-colour grandmother"
    - ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy, out of sorts, crook [Austral, NZ]

See also: dirty, ill, sick, tasteless