But there was also some nastiness behind the scenes that she found off-putting.

'I'm conscious of my over-perfectly groomed image which some find off-putting,' she says.

He was very smart, and other kids found that off-putting.

Perhaps what some people find off-putting about these designs, in fact, is not their cool rationality.

This was followed by what I found editorially off-putting but oddly revealing.

It's certainly true that some social conservatives speak in ways that many Americans find off-putting.

Because of it she developed a tough personality that many found off-putting, and a fierce determination to prove herself through her work.

What I find off-putting in this piece is its literalism.

What I would find off-putting is the idea that people would see me as a divorced man's bit of light relief.

What is it about dressing up that sophisticated people now find so off-putting?