off-putting
Example Sentences
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Restaurant tabs are off-putting, contractors are expensive and taxes are high.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
"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 • Feb. 17, 2026
The corporatization of Vimeo was also off-putting because Vimeo’s whole image, from jump, was to be something different from the other video platforms popping up in the transition to Web 2.0.
From Slate • Jan. 23, 2026
Returning three years after its initial run of episodes, the second season of Dan Erickson’s highly stylized, off-putting workplace drama extended the mythology of Lumon Industries without losing its narrative bearings.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025
I think, in his unbelievably off-putting way, he’s trying to “hang out.”
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
