unhelpful

Example Sentences

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While the news is unhelpful, it doesn’t push a turnaround of the Swiss drugmaker’s pharma research-and-development engine off track, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

“You only have so many tries” suggests his attempts to help could backfire; that language is inflammatory and shaming at worst and unhelpful at best.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

It was unhelpful to "put pressure on the government to fulfil things which are impossible to fulfil," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

At one stage, Sherborne suggested "you choose to remember the things that might be helpful, and deliberately forget the things that might be unhelpful".

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Unfortunately, the advice is unhelpful because it is stated in terms of strings rather than trees.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker