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

This book takes aim at what the author calls the “therapy-speak” that means well but creates an unhelpful shorthand for the more complicated problems crying out for a better means of expression.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

This was unhelpful, as they were still tending the horrible skrewts and needed their wits about them.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling