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off-centre en · ADJ
Meanings
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(Australian, Canada, Irish, New-Zealand, South-African, UK) Displaced from the centre.
Place the decorations off-centre on the table.
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(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.
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