Sentence examples for off colors from inspiring English sources

— Céline; while the "off" colors at Lanvin and mixes of sparkling embellishment also suggested that influence.

Although, to give Ms. Castiglioni her due, she has always used "off" colors.

The real surprise from a designer whose penchant is for dark "off" colors were the saturated prints with a psychedelic blur that brought life to chiffon dresses.

Playing down sizzling shades in favor of more subdued "off" colors like khaki green and mustard yellow, Veronica Etro called her vision "a new urban slant on the exotic".

There were not too many surprises, except in the palette, where the familiar cappuccino of the early pieces moved into darker tones of Bordeaux and teal and then, for evening clothes, "off" colors like lichen green.

Different proportions and graphic effects, like chest bibs, made the clothes seem easy while "off" colors — say the burnt orange of leather jacket, mixed with olive green — were somehow redolent of Italy's terra cotta houses in a leafy landscape.

Another was slakk, off color.

PROFANITY -- Some talk is slightly off color.

"I think he says a lot of off color things.

Some, of course, are, indeed, misprints — fuzzy or off color.

Maybe some of his jokes were off color, but because it was Sam, nobody said anything.