释义 |
off-puttingˈoff-ˌputting adjective British English - Apparently he found use of the sleeve very off-putting.
- She remembered her own off-putting attitude the day after it had happened.
- Sometimes I cycled in from Bourn, but the eight miles all uphill on the return was a bit off-putting.
- The resultant disturbances of the water and the movement is very off-putting to herons and cats.
- They had gnomes in the garden, which was even more off-putting.
- While not exactly threatening, her demeanour was hard and off-putting.
- Yet this is not the cold, off-putting abstraction which arouses incomprehension in the ordinary spectator.
if someone’s behaviour or the appearance of something is off-putting, you do not like it or you think it is unattractive: Some women found the competitive style of the discussions off-putting.—off-puttingly adverb → put somebody/something off at put |