Words similar to off-putting

Example sentences for: off-putting

How can you use “off-putting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Professor Honey, an English linguist now on assignment in Bophuthatswana, one of the less easily pronounceable places in the world, writes in a straightforward, simple, casual, friendly style totally devoid of the off-putting symbols and technical jargon that usually mark writing on pronunciation.
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 find the whole issue of "Women in Rock" a bit off-putting as well.
The practice of entering proper names and adjectives with lower-case initials I found off-putting because they were normally encountered with capitals.
I found its New Age connections slightly off-putting, but it looks so easy to do that it wasn't daunting.