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off-putting

/awf-poot-ing, of-/US // ˈɔfˌpʊt ɪŋ, ˈɒf- //

令人不快的,令人不快,令人讨厌的,令人不快的是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : provoking uneasiness, dislike, annoyance, or repugnance; disturbing or disagreeable.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inrepulsive
as indiscouraging

Examples

  • In their past calls for attacks on Western targets, AQAP has focused on putting bombs on planes, not revenge attacks.

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • In one of the activities men practiced putting the dolls gingerly on their backs to carry them.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an affront on the favourite of the Empress.

  • I know that in putting this before you I challenge some of the most popular affectations of cultivated people.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller.

  • We sat down pell-mell, anywhere, I next to Liszt, who kept putting things on my plate.