constructive
adjective
helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive).
unconstructive
-
a word derived from
constructive.
Example Sentences
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But a Kremlin official rejected the amendments as "completely unconstructive".
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
For the next couple of months, Ben Mathis-Lilley will be authoring the newsletter, and he loves receiving unconstructive criticism in the form of email.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025
As intolerance of uncertainty has begun to be studied as a separate trait from a tendency to worry, psychologists have identified typical behaviors—often unconstructive ones—that people use to tamp down their distress at not knowing.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2022
Asked about the comment on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said in Beijing that China hopes “the certain individual from India can avoid making such unconstructive comments.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
But it is not a hopeless prophecy—an unconstructive, pessimisstic, lamentation.
From The French in the Heart of America by John Finley
