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off-puttingly adverb uk /ˌɒfˈpʊt.ɪŋ.li/ us /ˈɑːfˌpʊt̬.ɪŋ.li/ in a slightly unpleasant or disturbing(= making you feel worried) way so that you do not want to get involved: The exhibition sounded off-puttingly pretentious, but in the end I really enjoyed it. The average house price in this part of the country is off-puttingly high for first-time buyers. The meat was meant to have a unique flavour, but I found it off-puttingly salty. The cottage was in a village that was rather off-puttingly named Marsh Bottom. The undertaker had an off-puttingly jolly manner. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Serious and unpleasant abominable abominably abysmal abysmally apocalyptic fraught frightful from hellidiom fun ghastliness not be all fun and gamesidiom noxiously objectionable objectionably odious unpleasantness unpretty unspeakable unspeakably unsupportable
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