off-putting

Their new Balmain campaign isn't just extremely off-putting and incredibly up-close; it's also a serious sartorial achievement.

There was also an off-putting conflict between whimsy and realism.

“What I like about Gibson is that he so contravenes his public image—that of a hard, off-putting guy,” Wheeler said.

On the other hand, he found my wasabi seaweed a bit off-putting.

The Smithy character, played by Dustin Ybarra, is so cartoonish as to be off-putting rather than gleefully adolescent.