Meanings
adjectiveoff-coloured (comparative more off-coloured, superlative most off-coloured)
comparative more off-coloured · superlative most off-coloured
- 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.
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
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