How to Use unhelpful in a Sentence

unhelpful

adjective
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  • The eggs can stand for the czar’s unhelpful myopia during the perilous days of 1917.
    — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The unhelpful strike zone of home plate umpire Alan Porter didn’t help.
    — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
  • The app is full of all sorts of other unhelpful features too.
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 27 July 2024
  • These unhelpful thoughts may have served us in the past, but are no longer productive.
    — Melody Wilding, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Leap and the net will appear - what a broad and unhelpful aphorism thrown in the face of single women in their 30s and 40s the world over, the play suggests.
    — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Up the road in Houston, the Rockets were proving unhelpful as well.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Some cling to the notion that stimulus is unhelpful, risky and hard.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Since the user won’t get prompts like that in real life, your results will be unhelpful.
    — Kevin Philpott, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Hopefully, Jack, like his mom, has learned to tune out the unhelpful chatter.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The emails from Meta were always polite, but unhelpful.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2024
  • If the edit is deemed wrong or unhelpful, the would-be editors lose their token.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Utah, on the other hand, is the worst, and its solutions are unorthodox and unhelpful.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 27 June 2022
  • In the meantime, however, Twitch's advice to streamers is unhelpful, to say the least.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2020
  • When the Taser proved unhelpful, Smith moved to his baton, McDermott said.
    — al, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The latest comments may be his most impolitic and unhelpful, though.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Trump aides have long viewed Project 2025 as unhelpful and have sought distance from the plan, saying Trump doesn’t embrace many of the proposals.
    — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • That’s unhelpful for many academics whose studies have longer time frames.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
  • But even those have a heightened level of drama that is unhelpful.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • My coworkers all knew her and were just as shocked with grief as anyone but had mostly unhelpful things to say.
    — April Bridgeman, Woman's Day, 13 Apr. 2016
  • Response to our emails was unhelpful and with several days’ lag time.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • In the end, feeling out of control is the result of letting your brain run in a groove that’s unhelpful and unproductive.
    — Melody Wilding, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Many players quit early on since the game was so difficult and unhelpful, and the launch of World of Warcraft in 2004 took a huge divot out of the EQ fanbase.
    — Andy Patrizio, Ars Technica, 6 June 2019
  • Even when Lindsay fell ill with a fever, and lost her sense of smell, Frank kept her from indulging in her worst, most unhelpful tendencies.
    — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Don't let an unhelpful pattern entrap you -- take this moment to break free!
    — Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This practice is both lazy and unhelpful, especially when the questions are reused from year to year.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Nobody tells you how unhelpful people can be, or how unfriendly the world can seem.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • An unhelpful comparison: At the same age, Messi was still trundling about with Barcelona’s third team.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • That unhelpful suggestion forced me to learn to rewire (yay!).
    — Robert Khederian, Curbed, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Clients who feel labeled or judged by their assessment results may resist further coaching, viewing the process as rigid and unhelpful.
    — Carrie-Ann Barrow, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Any lack of uniformity is commercially unhelpful to grocery stores, who require their fresh produce to look the same.
    — Charlotte Lytton, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024

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