off-color vs smutty

off-color

adj
  • Dirty, vulgar or obscene, especially in a way that is unpleasant. 

  • Feeling mildly unwell. 

  • Different than usual. 

  • Of the wrong color. 

smutty

adj
  • Obscene, indecent. 

  • Affected with the smut fungus. 

  • Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty. 

verb
  • To make dirty; to soil. 

How often have the words off-color and smutty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )