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In some senses, off-centre is marked as Australian, Irish, UK, idiomatic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
off-centre
adj 2
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3VERB + OFF-CENTRE
acts, bit, place
OFF-CENTRE + NOUN
table
PREP.
on
Definitions
adj
1
Displaced from the centre.
Place the decorations off-centre on the table.
2
Eccentric, unbalanced, slightly wrong.
Every time I see him, he acts a bit off-centre.
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.
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Place the decorations off-centre on the table.
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Every time I see him, he acts a bit off-centre.
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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 of
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