off-putting
adjective
off-put·ting
ˈȯf-ˌpu̇-tiŋ 
: that puts one off : repellent, disconcerting
an off-putting attitude
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This is aggressively weird and occasionally off-putting — Danny DeVito’s Penguin is just flat-out gross — which is the opposite of what Warner Bros. wanted from its sequel to one of the biggest movies of all time.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
The breath-freshener smell that Marks had devised was a combination of laurel leaves—peculiar to the modern sensibility, but not off-putting—and musk.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
After only a few days of trial, an off-putting locker-room vibe had consumed the public section of the overflow room and spilled out into the street at breaks.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 9 July 2025
Any external feature can evoke it: a person’s hair or dress, the way food looks on a plate, an off-putting shop frontage…
Inevitably, some writers have gone in the opposite direction.
—David Crystal
june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
The breath-freshener smell that Marks had devised was a combination of laurel leaves—peculiar to the modern sensibility, but not off-putting—and musk.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
After only a few days of trial, an off-putting locker-room vibe had consumed the public section of the overflow room and spilled out into the street at breaks.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 9 July 2025
Any external feature can evoke it: a person’s hair or dress, the way food looks on a plate, an off-putting shop frontage…
Inevitably, some writers have gone in the opposite direction.
—David Crystal
june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
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“Off-putting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off-putting. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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