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
Some countries, especially the one you mentioned, had an unconstructive role regarding the recent developments in Iran.
From Reuters ● Dec. 26, 2022
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
But it is not a hopeless prophecy—an unconstructive, pessimisstic, lamentation.
From The French in the Heart of America by John Finley
