off-putting

Example Sentences

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Instead, he is as off-putting at the end of the picture as he was at the beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's annoying, to be honest, like when we want to eat, I lose my appetite. The smell is just off-putting."

From Barron's

I find it off-putting when someone communicating with me doesn’t have the courtesy to compose his own email.

From The Wall Street Journal

The defence sector's historic over-reliance on ex-military people reduces the pool of possible candidates, and may also be off-putting to younger recruits.

From BBC

While there has been a rise in booing, they have often been accompanied by off-putting whistles from the crowd.

From BBC