off-putting
adjective
provoking uneasiness, dislike, annoyance, or repugnance; disturbing or disagreeable.
off-puttingly
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a word derived from
off-putting.
Example Sentences
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Karsh drives a white Tesla and it somehow becomes a key character in the film, off-puttingly so.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025
It’s got a twist, as you might expect, and it’s not a bad one, turning something off-puttingly conventional into, well, a nicely resonant surprise.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2022
And while her résumé of fantastical roles makes her seemingly right for this kind of part, Gillan is directed into a pair of off-puttingly stiff performances, more skit-appropriate than feature-rich.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
Maybe it’s the way he sticks to approachable, figurative images that are playful, but never off-puttingly abstract.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2020
A student from Rice University, Mark Bramhill, complained that the requirements for the yoga-pose emoji he had proposed were off-puttingly specific, almost as if they were meant to deter him.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2017
