"always putting off" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe someone's habit of procrastination or constantly delaying something. Example: She was never able to finish her work on time because she was always putting off important tasks until the last minute.
"I was always put off by poetry because of analyzing it," said Alexandra, a student at Fox Lane High School in Bedford.
Another unfortunate lesson we keep learning over and over is that policy makers always put off tough decisions for another day.
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric.
I've always put off doing this because I couldn't think of anything that could be interesting or new to do with Serge's songs.
Dallapiccola, who died in 1975, has never been able to shed the label "12-tone composer," which will always put off segments of the audience.
The race for the drivers' title has kept interest up and despite the timing of this weekend's race in China - early-morning sport always puts off casual punters - turnover is expected to be better than usual.
Whatever the reason — perhaps Presley is too vulgar for effective commercial exploitation, which is always put off by anything real, or perhaps the teenage market is just too tricky for Davy Crockett-type manipulation — the top brains have failed.
"There are all sorts of things I've always wanted to do, like write a screenplay, and I always put off those dreams — someday I will get to it, someday I will do that," Ms. Bell said the other day in her wood-paneled West Hollywood office.
But if you are anything like me and my wife, Betsey -- almost always hungry, almost always pressed for time, almost always in the market for a fresh idea and absolutely always put off by the daunting complexity of chefs' recipes -- Donna Hay is for you.
