Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to disconcert or repel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective hard to deal with.
- adjective tending to repel.
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- adjective
Disconcerting ,annoying orrepulsive ; tending toput off .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing annoyance or repugnance
- adjective tending to repel
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you can't figure out why blurting out 'I am moral and altruistic' is off-putting, then you've got some of that social autism Vox Day loves to go on about.
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If you can't figure out why blurting out 'I am moral and altruistic' is off-putting, then you've got some of that social autism Vox Day loves to go on about.
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But if you can't even understand why it would/could be taken as off-putting or galling – even if you disagree with the view – what can I say?
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I asked you to explain why you think that describing oneself as moral and altruistic should be seen as "galling" and "off-putting" by everyone.
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In Matzke's defense: While I've found his tone consistently (to this point, at least) off-putting, and I've been none too impressed by quite a lot of his rationales with regards to that tone when it comes to ID, this is this first time I recall him directly touching on the subject of theism/atheism itself.
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Whether one would find the moral and altruistic assertion "galling" and "off-putting" is another matter attributable to taste.
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Your explanation: you find TP's declaration off-putting and everyone who does not see it that way is a tard.
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The $45 cost is off-putting to my grad-school budget (abundance of other products left behind by moving girlfriends is a second reason).
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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You could both see why it would be (by and large) taken as off-putting, yet disagree that it really is.
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As for what you consider yourself to be or what you find off-putting – fantastic.
lbeaumont commented on the word off-putting
I cringe whenever I hear this word. Can we please do better? What words are more euphonious and have a more distinguished entomology?
October 26, 2010
bilby commented on the word off-putting
Dunno, my inner-entomologist was carried off by a swarm of insects.
October 26, 2010
yarb commented on the word off-putting
Hey, it's better than sick-making.
October 26, 2010
yarb commented on the word off-putting
entomology - that's the study of ents, right?
October 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word off-putting
This whole conversation is extremely off-putting.
October 26, 2010
pterodactyl commented on the word off-putting
It seems like this ought to mean "procrastinating on", as in, for example, "I really need to clear off my coffee table, but I've been off-putting it."
October 27, 2010
chrisdone commented on the word off-putting
Putting off is avoidance and avoidance is off putting.
October 27, 2010