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off-putting

[awf-poot-ing, of-]

adjective

  1. provoking uneasiness, dislike, annoyance, or repugnance; disturbing or disagreeable.



off-putting

adjective

  1. informaldisconcerting or disturbing

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • off-puttingly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of off-putting1

1820–30; off + putting, after verb phrase put off
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It’s a credit to Soller’s performance that I could also have so much empathy for such an obsessive and off-putting milquetoast.”

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At the start of her claim, she remembers the DWP told her: "We can't help with your homelessness," which she says was understandable but off-putting.

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Some have found their naked spite off-putting, but even when Deborah sued Ava in a past season, their affection was still palpable.

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After Myers' Musk repeatedly does an off-putting dance, Trump calls the move the billionaire's "least unsettling trait" before extending the olive branch in the form of mutual roasts.

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However, Idris Elba, 52, the star of The Wire and Luther, said in 2023 that the racist backlash to the prospect of him being Bond "made the whole thing disgusting and off-putting".

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