off-coloured

English

Adjective

off-coloured (comparative more off-coloured, superlative most off-coloured)

  1. Having the correct, desired, or pure colour tainted or stained.
    • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, Hodder and Staughton, page 55:
      The photograph was certainly very off-coloured. An unkind critic might easily have misinterpreted that dim surface.
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