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off-centre en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (Australian, Canada, Irish, New-Zealand, South-African, UK) Displaced from the centre.
    • Place the decorations off-centre on the table.
  2. (Australian, Canada, Irish, New-Zealand, South-African, UK, idiomatic) Eccentric, unbalanced, slightly wrong.
    • While Lahr's book was meticulously researched, the author had such deeply ambivalent feelings about Orton's relationship with Halliwwell (and probably with all gay relationships) that the book felt off-center. 1987 May 9, Michael Bronski, “Prick Up Your Marriage”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
    • Every time I see him, he acts a bit off-centre.

Forms

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most off-centre Degree=Sup lexicographic
more off-centre Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

askew