off-coloured

adj

off-coloured

adj

Etymology From off- + coloured.

1

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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