| Yet coupled with the rest of the presentation, the wacky words are more endearing than off-putting. |
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| And today, a bit late, it arrived, with a slightly off-putting scarlet refurbished label on the bottom. |
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| Piles of junk mail littering the hallways of a communal block of flats, for instance, can be very off-putting to potential buyers. |
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| Something about movies that announce their delightfulness so aggressively is kind of off-putting. |
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| Smith ate at Amaryllis once and says that, while he enjoyed the food, the situation and style of the restaurant were off-putting. |
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| Too much choice can be off-putting, especially if you have to negotiate with a UK company over the phone. |
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| If parking is too short-term or too expensive people won't have sufficient time to shop or will find the additional cost off-putting. |
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| Actually its colour is a little off-putting, so close your eyes as you sip this intensely sweet and zesty wine, full of marmalade tang. |
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| He really didn't care if it was off-putting, but if it stuck with even one person once a week, he had done his work. |
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| Some will find the starry-eyed closeness to nature and the whiff of new-age spirituality off-putting. |
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| I have always found it a bit off-putting, although I could never exactly think why. |
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| But numbers usually make a stronger case for a chief executive's dismissal than an off-putting personality. |
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| Some technologies are off-putting, but I haven't found the iPod to be one of them. |
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| Given how the brain perceives motion, randomly moving balloons aren't very off-putting. |
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| Again, we're hearing a torrent of policy, and I think this is off-putting to most people. |
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| At first sight, the law may seem obscure, complex and horribly off-putting for the ordinary man or woman. |
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| Valerian has an off-putting taste so blend it with equal amounts of a better-tasting herb such as mint. |
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| They can also be sent to general psychiatric hospitals but experts say this can be off-putting for the patient and result in less specialist care. |
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| Apart from financial considerations, the increased complexity of equipment, computers and techniques can be off-putting. |
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| For someone who uses the internet, nothing is more off-putting than filling in a personal information form. |
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| This unusual mixture of musical styles can be a bit off-putting, as the album erratically loses and gains momentum from track to track. |
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| One thing that could be a bit off-putting is that he uses a great deal of harsh language and blatancy, which can often be offensive. |
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| Lengthy mouthfuls of Latin can be off-putting and difficult to remember for many. |
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| Even setting it's off-putting theocracy aiside, Shas veers hard right on a range of issues. |
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| Looking at 159 differently sized breeds of dog en masse can be a little off-putting, especially considering their common source is the wolf. |
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| The abundance and confusion of these 9 shapes may seem off-putting at first to some pupils. |
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| If the audience is in jeans and t-shirts, the formal black business suit may be a bit off-putting. |
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| At worst, the sheer number of obligations is off-putting to nearly all businesses but those who can afford to establish in all Member States. |
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| If there's anything more off-putting than the British elite's squabbling, it's its self-loathing. |
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| Despite the off-putting appearance, we did sit down to eat it. |
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| All this ology and itis is so off-putting, not to mention grim HIV warnings all the time. |
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| A pastiche of autobiography and post-modern plot twists, it was haunted by an off-putting tone of smug precociousness. |
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| The all-day menu pasted up in the window seemed over-simple and even off-putting. |
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| It's all spiky and jaggy and it should be off-putting, but it strangely isn't because it has this antenna-like thing about it. |
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| His checkered record and three marriages are off-putting, to be sure. |
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| Will you be following this off-putting rabble who in time, as sure as eggs is eggs, will mellow and reduce into compelling living soap opera? |
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| For instance, a name in one language may be richly connotative but completely negative and off-putting in another language. |
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| These questions can make the respondent feel compelled to answer in a particular way, which can be off-putting to the respondent and skew the survey results. |
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| I understand the need for people to give to charities, but the hard sell is very off-putting. |
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| They can help translate the off-putting legal terminology of conventions into language non-lawyers can understand and can explain to the public the usefulness of these conventions for addressing the corruption problem. |
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| All very nice, and with nothing so disturbingly odd as to be off-putting. |
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| The Smithy character, played by Dustin Ybarra, is so cartoonish as to be off-putting rather than gleefully adolescent. |
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| Inside this nearly inedible shell is a reasonably tasty caramelized banana concoction, which is made off-putting by a scattering of slices of black licorice. |
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| I live near a Welsh school and it is very off-putting to go past when they are coming out of school. |
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| In fact, they thought it would be off-putting and distracting, and difficult for viewers to understand, he added. |
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| The cacophony is off-putting, and makes our elected representatives look like the spoilt children they are. |
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| Around two-thirds of both men and women say the wrong colour is off-putting. |
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| Quite often the cost of a uniform can be off-putting for a parent and may prevent them from registering their child. |
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| They are captivating, they are off-putting, they are glittery. |
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| His personality or attitude could be so off-putting that customers leave early, or his sales ability could be so unrefined that he consistently undersells. |
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| You can tell that someone thought this off-putting tale of modern mob mentality and teen occult fascination would make a very menacing, demographically secure chiller. |
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| On the other hand, he found my wasabi seaweed a bit off-putting. |
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| There is just something about foowashing that is off-putting, now as then, it seems, in its incarnate bodiliness. |
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| There was also an off-putting conflict between whimsy and realism. |
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| He watched a little of the sitcom, but the nuttiness was off-putting, so he decided to read a book instead. |
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| Migration rules are off-putting and the political rhetoric unwelcoming. |
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| Meanwhile, houses that are preserved as reverent shrines to the genius that once lurked within — with books left open on a leather-topped desk, bathed in green-shaded lamplight — can be equally off-putting in their own way. |
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| Americans are repulsed by Europeans' crooked, cream-coloured teeth and Europeans find phosphorescent, fake-looking American smiles equally off-putting. Cleanliness symbolises purity. |
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| It's not the puffed up body that's off-putting. |
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| But sometimes there are certain individuals who display an extreme decrepitude and their particularly off-putting aspect seems to want to shock the passer-by. |
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| I can't be the only cinema goer in the country who finds the size of the usual offerings off-putting, and at last they're giving us something more manageable and, indeed, appetising. |
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| There is an off-putting air of officiousness to the place, an inevitable byproduct of playing official host to Israel's A-list guests for half a century. |
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| The worry is, as Marseille comes to look like everywhere else, it loses what made it special – the saltiness, the wickedness, the downright smelliness so off-putting to some. |
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| While readers might feel their hearts soften at Mary's situation, her disagreeableness – not to be confused with rascally Tom Sawyer-style mischievousness – is off-putting. |
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| I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions. |
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| If you tried to drink a quiet pint on the harbour the ducks were there and they sat squatly and looked up at you and seemed to chuckle superciliously, which was off-putting. |
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| In an era of frenetic editing and propulsive soundtracks, the solemn quietude McKay establishes may be off-putting to some viewers and brilliantly nervy to others. |
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