off-putting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈoff-ˌputting adjective British English UNPLEASANTif someone’s behaviour or the appearance of something is off-putting, you do not like it or you think it is unattractive 〔某人的举止或某物的外观〕令人气恼的；令人讨厌的 Some women found the competitive style of the discussions off-putting. 有些女性觉得这种互不相让的讨论方式令人反感。 —off-puttingly adverb → put somebody/something off at put
Examples from the Corpus
off-putting• Apparently he found use of the sleeve very off-putting.• Sometimes I cycled in from Bourn, but the eight miles all uphill on the return was a bit off-putting.• They had gnomes in the garden, which was even more off-putting.• While not exactly threatening, her demeanour was hard and off-putting.• Yet this is not the cold, off-putting abstraction which arouses incomprehension in the ordinary spectator.• She remembered her own off-putting attitude the day after it had happened.• The resultant disturbances of the water and the movement is very off-putting to herons and cats.ˈoff-ˌputting adjectiveChineseSyllable
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off-putting
ˈoff-ˌputting
adjective British English
if someone’s behaviour or the appearance of something is off-putting, you do not like it or you think it is unattractive:
Some women found the competitive style of the discussions off-putting.
—off-puttingly adverb
⇨ put somebody/something off at put
ˈoff-ˌputting
adjective British Englishif someone’s behaviour or the appearance of something is off-putting, you do not like it or you think it is unattractive:
—off-puttingly adverb
⇨ put somebody/something off at put