unhelpful
Example Sentences
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“While core revenues came in ahead of expectations and volume trends were encouraging, the cost miss was unhelpful and the 2026 guidance is insufficient to lift estimates this morning,” they write.
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
The timing of the move is unhelpful since the lender is publishing full-year results this month and will outline its mid-term strategy in May.
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
He described the legal action as "unhelpful, premature and the wrong way for doing these things".
From BBC
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