Words similar to off-putting

Example sentences for: off-putting

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The following passage will help to explain the slightly off-putting title and will impart to the reader a sample of the author's humor, which I find engaging:
I found its New Age connections slightly off-putting, but it looks so easy to do that it wasn't daunting.
The practice of entering proper names and adjectives with lower-case initials I found off-putting because they were normally encountered with capitals.
(Two matters of style should be noted here: first, all entries are capitalized, which I find off-putting; second, runover lines are indented, necessary in a dictionary but not in a work consisting of such short entries, with a resultant waste of space.)
You would not have been out of line to have brought this aggressive and off-putting action to the attention of the owner or manager, whichever one was present that night.