counterproductive
Example Sentences
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He shows us that ill-considered regulation may be counterproductive.
Both state and federal safeguards already exist to govern data use and prevent pricing coordination, making local ordinances targeting software redundant and potentially counterproductive.
From Los Angeles Times
Sending powerful investors packing may be the point of the bill, but it seems counterproductive.
Only four people have gone to prison for failing to pay council tax since 2020, it said, so highlighting the sanction was counterproductive when writing to those who had not been able to pay.
From BBC
That goal informs his tariff policy, however counterproductive it may be.
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