But I found it less off-putting than fascinating, his intelligence and sense of humor blazing through, and he quickly put me at ease.
Though she is considered as tough as her husband, she can be less off-putting.
Mr Reid is a little less off-putting, but clumsier too, more prone to a gaffe than Ms Pelosi.
This quality is less off-putting in Ivana, whose career didn't start with a million-dollar loan from her father.
Could he become Prime Minister by default, much like the incumbent, simply by being slightly less off-putting a presence than his rival?
While Mitt Romney did a great job of conjuring a less off-putting and hard-right Romney, Obama walked into a trap of his own devising.
The first iteration of Tumblr was a tool for "tumblelogging" (a short-form variation on blogging) designed to make it easier and less off-putting.
Mr. Bush wanted to look smarter, and Mr. Gore, chastened by criticism over the last week, wanted to be less off-putting.
Answer (in so far as there is one): don't oppose missile defence root and branch; get behind the notion of transforming the military against new threats.Such an agenda would perhaps make Democrats less off-putting to conservative white men.
The €300,000 price tag (£244,000) might seem hefty, but it is likely to be less off-putting for a couple whose combined wealth, according to Forbes estimates last year, totals $30m $18mm).
Such relative modesty is a concession to the notion that more women buy the paper at the weekends, as the title hopes to be less off-putting to a female audience.
