off-topic


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off-topic

adj
not related to the matter being discussed
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'Ang layo mo, ang layo mo, ang layo mo (You are off-topic)' was all I could remember him reiterating.
Shelley Preston, head of Adecco Retail, said: "The UK job market is really competitive, and we've found that companies are forgoing the standard experiencerelated questions in favour of curve-ball, off-topic questions to catch interviewees off-guard and test their mental reflexes."
"I love horses, and I love when we talk off-topic in that class," said Jenkins, who took riding lessons at the ages of 12 and 13.
They stated that comments must not be defamatory, obscene, threatening, or abusive; be discriminatory in any way; be "off-topic, irrelevant or unintelligible" or contain advertising.
Parliament chairwoman Fouzia Zainal had to cut off Ahmed Al Demistani, deeming his comments off-topic as he said families were seeking charities to help cover the cost of school for their children and now they are being charged extra at canteens.
Wikipedia explains a troll in internet slang as 'a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalising tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.
Reviews which use profane and hateful language, or reviews which are off-topic are removed from the "Reviews" section below the apps.
In different times, laconic Job will silently meet his sorrows, and to me its shouting, but I am out of place, not wanted, off-topic, at the wrong time, I walk the sea and swim the field and in the future go out by accident.
TEA spokesperson DeEtta Culbertson said Thursday that students can receive a score of zero on their essays if the page is blank or if the paper is off-topic, illegible or written in any language other than English.
We haven't yet had the heart to tell the sender that jeans might be a little off-topic for Campaign.
This is one example of how chapters occasionally veer off-topic and seem to lose direction.
She became best known for characters like Roseanne Roseannadanna - the rambling, frequently off-topic Weekend Update contributor who would answer questions from Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey - and her impressions of Baba Wawa, er Barbara Walters.