unhelpful
Britishadjective
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
"It's an unhelpful, adversarial, complex system that is designed to make you give up," Luxford told the BBC.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
To deny its powerful, subsisting reality would be to endorse a simplistic and ultimately unhelpful evasion.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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