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Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. off-puttingadjective

    causing annoyance or repugnance

    "an off-putting remark"

    Antonyms:
    appealing, pleasing

  2. off-puttingadjective

    tending to repel

    "The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile"- Elizabeth Hess

    Antonyms:
    appealing, pleasing

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  1. List of paraphrases for "off-putting":

    disconcerting, repulsive, unpleasant, distasteful, dissuasive

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#18616unpleasant
#43152repulsive
#56411distasteful
#57101disconcerting
#268647dissuasive

How to use off-putting in a sentence?

  1. Keith Anderson:

    That's the kind of thing that starts to freak out suppliers, it's a little off-putting to see a ribbon right below what you just paid for that says,' Look at our products.' Our Brands are right to be skeptical.

  2. William S. Burroughs:

    Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

  3. Mike Tipton:

    It's difficult to keep taking stuff off, putting it in your rucksack, then putting it back on, the urge to keep going is enormous. But you have to fight that urge and just do it.

  4. Janet Hoek:

    If tobacco packages are no longer glamorous or appealing, but are instead unattractive and off-putting, fewer young people will be tempted.

  5. Lori Glawe:

    We spend a lot of time talking about why you are better off putting the money in your pocket first.


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