off-message
[ awf-mes-ij, of‐ ]
/ ˈɔfˈmɛs ɪdʒ, ˈɒf‐ /
adjective
straying from or contradicting the central theme or official message of a political, business, or other organization: The last speaker was way off-message with his bad jokes and irrelevant anecdotes.
Compare
on-message.
Words nearby off-message
off-label,
off-licence,
off-license,
off-limits,
off-load,
off-message,
off-mike,
off-off-broadway,
off-peak,
off-piste,
off-price
Example sentences from the Web for off-message
I guess that type of statement would have been too "off-message" for the RNC to release.
But if McClellan was off-message in his campaign duties, he was hardly alone.