Words similar to off-putting

Example sentences for: off-putting

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Product as a generic mercantile term for "marketable commodity" has been around for years, but it seems to have first acquired prominence as jargon--and specifically as a term with a somewhat off-putting aroma--in the recording industry during the 1960s.
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:
(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.)
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.
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.