How to Use off-color in a Sentence

off-color

adjective

• Slow and steady, and a little off-color?
  — Dianna Douglas, NPR, 28 June 2026
• The stuff that comes out of Mike’s mouth is very off-color a lot of the time.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
• Some of the more off-color clips have captured more than 12 million views.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 18 Feb. 2026
• The gifts are usually a little bit off-color, though not always.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• Remember, a hard freeze will still damage them, turning them mushy and off-colored.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025
• Sure, high, off-color rivers can be confusing and hard to read, but fish are still biting in these conditions.
  — Tim Romano, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2024
• In Las Vegas casinos, expect adult humor and off-color jokes.
  — Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
• Gunn’s work at Marvel was known for its blaring needle drops and an off-color snark that lined up with the franchise’s self-aware comedic stylings.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
• Your containers also need drainage holes in the bottom or water can back up in the pots and cause your plants to stop growing with off-color foliage.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
• Yellowing can happen with some topcoats when they’re cured, giving nails an unwanted, slightly off-color tint.
  — Morgan Fargo, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
• The show quickly rose in the ratings — often rivaling Winfrey — thanks to its off-color brand of content and on-screen fights.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
• Huffman liked to do impersonations and had a profane streak; he was once forced to apologize for making an off-color joke at an office party.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025
• Those off-color cover versions make for one of the more outrageous bits in a film that rarely takes its ostensibly offensive routines far enough.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• After bursting out of the middle of a snowman, Dusty steps down into the audience to do a little of her famous off-color crowd work.
  — Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
• The behavior, the plaintiffs say, would worsen whenever the CEO issued one of his many off-color tweets.
  — Sarah Green Carmichael, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
• Musk previously drew criticism for making an off-color joke about Sweeney's body in December.
  — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
• The prize endorsement came from Paul McCartney, whose pitch was to-the-point and surprisingly off-color.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
• Overwatering can also result in stunted growth and off-color (yellow) foliage in annuals.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• Model Janice Dickinson, who served as a judge for several seasons, has come under fire for her harsh critiques and off-color remarks.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024
• Marvel dropped a full trailer in April that was chock-full of off-color witticisms, meta-references, slo-mo action, and a generous sprinkling of F-bombs.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 July 2024
• As trade envoy, Andrew became known for practical jokes and off-color remarks, which British diplomats had to tolerate because of his titles.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
• Jackson made the screening audience gasp multiple times during the Q&A, with off-color remarks about some of Combs’ accusers.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 June 2026
• To wear a device is to pull everyone around you into your data stream, where an off-color joke or a bad moment will be recorded—and eventually used to train future AI systems.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
• Part off-color drag act, part Carol Burnett-style sketch comedy, the show has survived on its bountiful comedic wits to become one of the hottest Broadway tickets of the year.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
• However, unfortunately writers' rooms were often off-color places, especially more than 20 years ago.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024
• Her sensibility is grounded in sincerity but relies on bawdy, off-color jokes to deflect from empowerment messaging that might otherwise seem square.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
• Inevitably, Uncle Joe makes some off-color political comments, Grandpa falls asleep at the table, and the kids ask impatiently if they can be excused.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 23 Nov. 2023
• The problem for Platner is that his marital behavior follows a string of reports about offensive and off-color Reddit posts as well as a tattoo with a Nazi symbol.
  — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 1 June 2026
• The Spanish giant was much improved in the second half after looking off-color before halftime, lacking the precision of a team seeking a fourth European title in five years.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 25 May 2025
• Among the 25-year-old right-wing propagandist’s multitude of off-color comments is his suggestion the Holocaust may be exaggerated.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 May 2024