Definitions for off-putting
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
off′-put`ting(adj.)
provoking uneasiness, dislike, annoyance, or repugnance:
off-putting remarks.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Origin of off-putting:
1890–95
Princeton's WordNet
off-putting(adj)
causing annoyance or repugnance
"an off-putting remark"
off-putting(adj)
tending to repel
"The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile"- Elizabeth Hess
Wiktionary
off-putting(Adjective)
Disconcerting, annoying or repulsive; tending to put off.
His habit of picking his nose is quite off-putting
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