It's slightly off-putting, but can be amusing at times.
It still sounds slightly off-putting, and still surprises with its salty-sweet delicacy.
It's got a gristly grey element to it which I find slightly off-putting.
Their cuteness is slightly off-putting, but the emotional directness can hold you just long enough for the formal acuity of the images to settle in.
Whatever sits on display when you visit — ancient human art, towering dinosaurs, slightly off-putting taxidermy — is just the tip of the iceberg.
"The flatly sung vocals are slightly off-putting but quite minimal and as the piercing, insinuating instrumental intensifies, it draws you in like quicksand.
The slightly off-putting stillness and the unmoving frame give the comic tableaus the force of art, which reinforces the humor: it's a combination of Bergman and Feydeau.
He doesn't wear a top very often, he appears to be part robot and, thanks to his role as producer, he has a slightly off-putting messianic quality.
It's a novel way of storytelling that graduates from being slightly off-putting – like a bad night at the fringe theatre, and not at all what we expect from a crime drama – to being utterly compelling.
On the main drag of Naxos Town, along the harbour, a long line of restaurants are fronted by generally unpushy, but nonetheless still slightly off-putting proprietors, enthusiastically seeking to drum up trade.
They certainly look the part, fooling several people on social media, and even have a certain, slightly off-putting, sulphurous smell, but they taste of absolutely nothing – better for an omelette, perhaps, than plain scrambling.
