unhelpful
Example Sentences
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"At this stage, it's just unhelpful to pretend there is still some kind of comprehensive system in place."
From BBC
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.
“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
It was unhelpful to "put pressure on the government to fulfil things which are impossible to fulfil," he said.
From Barron's
He said the draft code of conduct that had been provided was "poor", "unhelpful" and "raised more questions than answers".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
