offput

I couldn't figure out a word to describe precisely what my reaction was, though -- "offput" was the closest I could come on Tuesday.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2003

As offput as I could be by his increasingly bizarre behavior, I've always felt sorry for him.

Michael Jackson Gone at 50 rabid1st 2009

In terms of an all-female issue of a magazine, it's perhaps more a good thing in encouraging female writers to submit through the slushpool, but it's less flattering for those writers who are regularly being published and who might believe they have the ability to make the issue on their "own" terms, and offput by the suggestion that they needed any kind of a "leg up".

mikandra: I agree and I don't agree mikandra 2010

I've always been offput by the Clinton's arrogant belief that they are the only ones who not only can win, but surely will, and that Obama simply cannot.

Clinton reviewing 'options' - but says superdelegates could shift 2008

I also happen to love witty dialogue, though, and some people get offput because people "don't talk like that".

Juno's Choice 2008

They said look, we'll offput those loans, we'll put them somewhere where banks won't have to hold them.

CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008 2008

I would NEVER jeer at you for being offput by Meltzer's superhero fiction and most comic book fans wouldn't, either.

Saturday in the Box Canyon | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

At first I was offput by her co-opting and commandeering of Barack's campaign themes and slogan, but, hey, when you think about it what she's showing is her competency, indeed skill, at political jujitsu.

Hillary Clinton copies Barack Obama's chants. Ann Althouse 2008

I say things faux-nonchalant stuff like that when I am so offput by some risk for me kid all the time.

The Call That Goes Bump, And The Night kittenpie 2006

Anyway, it has put the power of smell in my mind - and particularly its power to offput.

Archive 2007-02-01 Glyn Davies 2007