How To Use Off-putting In A Sentence
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One thing that could be a bit off-putting is that he uses a great deal of harsh language and blatancy, which can often be offensive.
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While no one disputes Ahola's ability to lift 900 pounds, some have found his performance refreshingly unpracticed, others off-puttingly amateurish.
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Lengthy mouthfuls of Latin can be off-putting and difficult to remember for many.
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I like to hear doubt and humanity and find confidence off-putting in songs.
The Sun
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If his job description sounds a little off-putting, the good news is that he writes interestingly and well.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can save articles in PDF format (which is good) but it is a little off-putting in that they call it "printing" the article (I turned off my attached printer just in case).
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: National Agricultural Library Digital Repository (NALDR)
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No off-putting notion of a debt to repay.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile
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If there's anything more off-putting than the British elite's squabbling, it's its self-loathing.
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Again, we're hearing a torrent of policy, and I think this is off-putting to most people.
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At first sight, the law may seem obscure, complex and horribly off-putting for the ordinary man or woman.
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But when she tells him the world-class director helming his work and the famous producer overseeing it all believe the use of the word dozens of times in that one scene is off-putting and should be toned down, Danny reacts with righteous anger about how it's authentic and real and must remain or the entire work is devalued.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Zoe Kazan Pens Play; Glee's Groff Gets Ugly
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This unusual mixture of musical styles can be a bit off-putting, as the album erratically loses and gains momentum from track to track.
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The brew is very full bodied and satisfying, though some find the small amount of sediment and oils off-putting.
Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
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Although it’s likely off-putting to see such an expression accompanying grave news, always be sensitive to the context and respond appropriately.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS
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He's slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find a bit off-putting when they first meet him.
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The stylised look of the film might be off-putting to those who demand photorealism above all in their special effects work, but anyone with the slightest affection for pulp SF serials or comics will be in seventh heaven.
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Okay, so standing there with the glare of the lights in your face and with the cameras rolling can be a bit off-putting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether one would find the moral and altruistic assertion "galling" and "off-putting" is another matter attributable to taste.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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‘The document's ‘legalese’ can be off-putting to those unversed in such language and ‘a lot of small-business owners very seldom pull out the plan document to make sure that they've met all of its requirements,’ he says.
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The $45 cost is off-putting to my grad-school budget (abundance of other products left behind by moving girlfriends is a second reason).
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09
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I asked you to explain why you think that describing oneself as moral and altruistic should be seen as "galling" and "off-putting" by everyone.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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Inside this nearly inedible shell is a reasonably tasty caramelized banana concoction, which is made off-putting by a scattering of slices of black licorice.
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He's slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find a bit off-putting when they first meet him.
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In Matzke's defense: While I've found his tone consistently (to this point, at least) off-putting, and I've been none too impressed by quite a lot of his rationales with regards to that tone when it comes to ID, this is this first time I recall him directly touching on the subject of theism/atheism itself.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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Apparently he found use of the sleeve very off-putting.
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You can tell that someone thought this off-putting tale of modern mob mentality and teen occult fascination would make a very menacing, demographically secure chiller.
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And today, a bit late, it arrived, with a slightly off-putting scarlet refurbished label on the bottom.
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If his job description sounds a little off-putting, the good news is that he writes interestingly and well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your explanation: you find TP's declaration off-putting and everyone who does not see it that way is a tard.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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Valerian has an off-putting taste so blend it with equal amounts of a better-tasting herb such as mint.
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But before you rush to the shops, be aware that this work contains steeply off-putting section titles and chapter headings, many favouring the riff-plus-triplet form academic publishing gets such a kick out of.
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Some may find the charges off-putting.
Times, Sunday Times
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If that strikes you as off-putting, I can't blame you: parts of the film certainly grated on me a little.
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He's slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find a bit off-putting when they first meet him.
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Looking at 159 differently sized breeds of dog en masse can be a little off-putting, especially considering their common source is the wolf.
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But numbers usually make a stronger case for a chief executive's dismissal than an off-putting personality.
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Supposedly this accomplishes the same thing, but I find the idea of zapping my skull a bit off-putting.
Interesting Thing of the Day
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He's slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find a bit off-putting when they first meet him.
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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.
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But as Johanna notes, there is still something off-putting about fusing the notion of colonisation with pop-psych finding yourself, and that fact that the land is so strange and sparkly.
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
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A pastiche of autobiography and post-modern plot twists, it was haunted by an off-putting tone of smug precociousness.
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He's slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find a bit off-putting when they first meet him.
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It's all spiky and jaggy and it should be off-putting, but it strangely isn't because it has this antenna-like thing about it.
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I wonder: Speaking solely in terms of presentation and the notion of hectoring, lecturing and shrillness, do the same people who find Hillary off-putting also find Ron Paul so?
"She seemed dogmatic, almost angry, like she was vicious..."
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Woe betide if you use flash during a performance - it's off-putting to other audience members and most of all, to the performers.
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Given how the brain perceives motion, randomly moving balloons aren't very off-putting.
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Attempts to generate supplementary material to help those coming to it as a medium for the first time, to give some insight into how productions are created, but still evolve, can just seem stilted and off-putting.
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All this ology and itis is so off-putting, not to mention grim HIV warnings all the time.
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And he is already looking at ways in which we can improve the assessment of potential adopters, which is painfully slow and off-putting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sudden and abrupt changes in stance and orientation are off-putting for the opponent so work out some routines to achieve this.
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While no one disputes Ahola's ability to lift 900 pounds, some have found his performance refreshingly unpracticed, others off-puttingly amateurish.
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Yet coupled with the rest of the presentation, the wacky words are more endearing than off-putting.
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Despite the unsociable behaviour of some, which was particularly off-putting to visitors to the Halloween Fair this often ‘dreaded’ time of the year passed off reasonably well.
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Too much choice can be off-putting, especially if you have to negotiate with a UK company over the phone.
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If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware.
Thomas Ostermeier: 'Hamlet? The play's a mess'
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If you can't figure out why blurting out 'I am moral and altruistic' is off-putting, then you've got some of that social autism Vox Day loves to go on about.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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I find it off-putting and embarrassing in public, but he dismisses it as an issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for what you consider yourself to be or what you find off-putting – fantastic.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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Piles of junk mail littering the hallways of a communal block of flats, for instance, can be very off-putting to potential buyers.
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It was a guise he adopted to great effect, since it was both reassuring to clients and off-putting to opponents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some technologies are off-putting, but I haven't found the iPod to be one of them.
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He also sounds like he is permanently sucking on a lozenge which is a little off-putting.
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I have always found it a bit off-putting, although I could never exactly think why.
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Cool also conveys effortlessness, which is appealing at first in a politician but can also be off-putting.
THE PROMISE
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I find it quite off-putting.
The Sun
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To the unfamiliar, that term may seem off-putting, like a new soft-rock genre that leans heavily on harp solos.But it's possible many of us will be using cloud music systems in the not-far-off future.
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Some readers find it helpful to have the title signposting such entries as a linked series in this way; others find it off-putting.
Your shout
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Sudden and abrupt changes in stance and orientation are off-putting for the opponent so work out some routines to achieve this.
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Sudden and abrupt changes in stance and orientation are off-putting for the opponent so work out some routines to achieve this.
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He's slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find a bit off-putting when they first meet him.
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So the last few laps were a bit off-putting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since this warning will be off-putting for consumers, food firms are working hard to remove the colours in question: Tartrazine (E102), Quinoline Yellow (E104), Sunset Yellow (E110),
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Then I had to fill out my profile in such a way as to be quirky and unique and cool yet not weird and off-putting and dorkish.
Purplecigar Diary Entry
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Though off-puttingly complicated in detail, local taxes are in essence simple.
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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.
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But if you can't even understand why it would/could be taken as off-putting or galling – even if you disagree with the view – what can I say?
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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The narrative is uneven, the pacing - not exactly enlivening, the costuming - very wannabe - and the music - thoroughly off-putting
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But there does appear to be something off-putting about fantasy as an idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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You need to discover just what you find so off-putting.
The Sun
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However, the gearing of some 47% at this company is a little off-putting.
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We find it off-putting and actually a bit sad.
Times, Sunday Times
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His rough manners were rather off-putting.
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The ambience is one of total comfort, without the reverential - and off-putting - hush that some ostensibly great restaurants seem to encourage.
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It was a guise he adopted to great effect, since it was both reassuring to clients and off-putting to opponents.
Times, Sunday Times
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What began as a trestle table selling kippers became a smart, but never off-putting, restaurant offering the best seafood in the world, notably locally nurtured mussels and oysters.
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And as for the prospect of typing in an e-mail using a touchscreen… even habitual e-mailers may find that off-putting.
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Despite the off-putting appearance, we did sit down to eat it.
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Some women found the competitive style of the discussions off-putting.
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Not to be off-putting, Professor Shandy, but did you know that this building was once the regional pesthouse ?
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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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.
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Also, the huge list of chemically ingredients was a bit off-putting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I never found it off-putting during sex and sometimes it was even a turnon.
I Still Want My Period
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You could both see why it would be (by and large) taken as off-putting, yet disagree that it really is.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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However, many customers found the smell of this product distinctly off-putting.
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I mean scatting alone is off-putting for a lot of people.
Times, Sunday Times
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His personality or attitude could be so off-putting that customers leave early, or his sales ability could be so unrefined that he consistently undersells.
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That off-putting lack of foothold, coupled with dimensionless characters, seriously hindered my enjoyment of this story (though I did like the Twilight Zone-ish ending).
REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees [UPDATED]
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A life with too many "shoulds" is very off-putting to me.
Archive 2009-06-01
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I find the nekkid dudes on many of today's bks off-putting.
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 2 days to go!
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Though tangential to the main thesis, this book also serves as an excellent briefing for the general reader on the often uninspiring and sometimes off-putting technical language of the financial world.
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Smith ate at Amaryllis once and says that, while he enjoyed the food, the situation and style of the restaurant were off-putting.
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If you can't figure out why blurting out 'I am moral and altruistic' is off-putting, then you've got some of that social autism Vox Day loves to go on about.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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However, many customers found the smell of this product distinctly off-putting.
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Some will find the starry-eyed closeness to nature and the whiff of new-age spirituality off-putting.
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Woe betide if you use flash during a performance - it's off-putting to other audience members and most of all, tot he performers.
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I find it very off-putting when people don't look me in the eye.
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The braised buffalo-carp tail has a somewhat off-putting name - neither the carp nor the buffalo for which it is named tops my list of subtle dainties - but the dish was outstanding.
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Inside this nearly inedible shell is a reasonably tasty caramelized banana concoction, which is made off-putting by a scattering of slices of black licorice.
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He advocates time-honored apophatic prayer, ‘empty, expectant openness’ to God, as he nicely puts it, and does so in a friendly, informal manner that is not scary or elitist or off-putting.
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Something about movies that announce their delightfulness so aggressively is kind of off-putting.
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Though off-puttingly complicated in detail, local taxes are in essence simple.
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While her performance is deft and provocative, her mannish appearance is so off-putting that it's tough to imagine two men being so worked up over her they'd risk everything to have her.
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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.
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Though off-puttingly complicated in detail, local taxes are in essence simple.
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He's slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find a bit off-putting when they first meet him.
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The all-day menu pasted up in the window seemed over-simple and even off-putting.
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an off-putting remark
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It is not what they are doing but the way they do it that I find so off-putting.
The Sun
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However, many customers found the smell of this product distinctly off-putting.
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That sounds a bit off-putting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sudden and abrupt changes in stance and orientation are off-putting for the opponent so work out some routines to achieve this.
