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Definition of off-putting in English: off-puttingadjective ɒfˈpʊtɪŋˈɔf ˌpʊdɪŋ Unpleasant, disconcerting, or repellent. his scar is somewhat off-putting Example sentencesExamples - Too much choice can be off-putting, especially if you have to negotiate with a UK company over the phone.
- Despite the off-putting appearance, we did sit down to eat it.
- If parking is too short-term or too expensive people won't have sufficient time to shop or will find the additional cost off-putting.
- Actually its colour is a little off-putting, so close your eyes as you sip this intensely sweet and zesty wine, full of marmalade tang.
- He really didn't care if it was off-putting, but if it stuck with even one person once a week, he had done his work.
- Smith ate at Amaryllis once and says that, while he enjoyed the food, the situation and style of the restaurant were off-putting.
- At first sight, the law may seem obscure, complex and horribly off-putting for the ordinary man or woman.
- Again, we're hearing a torrent of policy, and I think this is off-putting to most people.
- They can also be sent to general psychiatric hospitals but experts say this can be off-putting for the patient and result in less specialist care.
- But numbers usually make a stronger case for a chief executive's dismissal than an off-putting personality.
- Something about movies that announce their delightfulness so aggressively is kind of off-putting.
- Piles of junk mail littering the hallways of a communal block of flats, for instance, can be very off-putting to potential buyers.
- And today, a bit late, it arrived, with a slightly off-putting scarlet refurbished label on the bottom.
- Valerian has an off-putting taste so blend it with equal amounts of a better-tasting herb such as mint.
- Yet coupled with the rest of the presentation, the wacky words are more endearing than off-putting.
- Given how the brain perceives motion, randomly moving balloons aren't very off-putting.
- Woe betide if you use flash during a performance - it's off-putting to other audience members and most of all, to the performers.
- Some technologies are off-putting, but I haven't found the iPod to be one of them.
- I have always found it a bit off-putting, although I could never exactly think why.
- Some will find the starry-eyed closeness to nature and the whiff of new-age spirituality off-putting.
Synonyms unpleasant, unappealing, uninviting, unattractive, disagreeable, offensive, distasteful, unsavoury, unpalatable, unappetizing, objectionable, nasty, disgusting, obnoxious, repellent discouraging, disheartening, demoralizing, dispiriting, daunting, dismaying, forbidding, intimidating, frightening, formidable informal horrid, horrible rare rebarbative
Derivatives adverb The dressing on the Caesar salad was off-puttingly sweet. Example sentencesExamples - Far be it from me to suggest that anyone should find cooking with wine in Britain off-puttingly expensive, but thanks to our high taxes, it is not cheap.
- Like the stonework, all other parts are made with visual clues and are crisply detailed, without being off-puttingly austere.
- While no one disputes his ability to lift 900 pounds, some have found his performance refreshingly unpracticed, others off-puttingly amateurish.
- I just did a reading for about 650 people, half of whom were, rather off-puttingly, in another room watching me on a big screen.
Definition of off-putting in US English: off-puttingadjectiveˈɔf ˌpʊdɪŋ Unpleasant, disconcerting, or repellent. his scar is somewhat off-putting Example sentencesExamples - He really didn't care if it was off-putting, but if it stuck with even one person once a week, he had done his work.
- Some will find the starry-eyed closeness to nature and the whiff of new-age spirituality off-putting.
- Woe betide if you use flash during a performance - it's off-putting to other audience members and most of all, to the performers.
- Again, we're hearing a torrent of policy, and I think this is off-putting to most people.
- They can also be sent to general psychiatric hospitals but experts say this can be off-putting for the patient and result in less specialist care.
- I have always found it a bit off-putting, although I could never exactly think why.
- And today, a bit late, it arrived, with a slightly off-putting scarlet refurbished label on the bottom.
- Valerian has an off-putting taste so blend it with equal amounts of a better-tasting herb such as mint.
- Piles of junk mail littering the hallways of a communal block of flats, for instance, can be very off-putting to potential buyers.
- Too much choice can be off-putting, especially if you have to negotiate with a UK company over the phone.
- Despite the off-putting appearance, we did sit down to eat it.
- But numbers usually make a stronger case for a chief executive's dismissal than an off-putting personality.
- Yet coupled with the rest of the presentation, the wacky words are more endearing than off-putting.
- If parking is too short-term or too expensive people won't have sufficient time to shop or will find the additional cost off-putting.
- Something about movies that announce their delightfulness so aggressively is kind of off-putting.
- Smith ate at Amaryllis once and says that, while he enjoyed the food, the situation and style of the restaurant were off-putting.
- At first sight, the law may seem obscure, complex and horribly off-putting for the ordinary man or woman.
- Given how the brain perceives motion, randomly moving balloons aren't very off-putting.
- Some technologies are off-putting, but I haven't found the iPod to be one of them.
- Actually its colour is a little off-putting, so close your eyes as you sip this intensely sweet and zesty wine, full of marmalade tang.
Synonyms unpleasant, unappealing, uninviting, unattractive, disagreeable, offensive, distasteful, unsavoury, unpalatable, unappetizing, objectionable, nasty, disgusting, obnoxious, repellent
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