off-centre

Adjective

off-centre (comparative more off-centre, superlative most off-centre)

1. (Australian, Canada, Irish, New Zealand, South-African, UK) Displaced from the centre.
   • Place the decorations off-centre on the table.

   Synonyms:

   askew

2. (Australian, Canada, Irish, New Zealand, South-African, UK) 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.1987 May 9, Michael Bronski, “Prick Up Your Marriage”, in Gay Community News, page 6