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37 examples of Unhelpful in a sentence

At first, I would screenshot their comments and make fun of their typos, but this soon felt elitist and ultimately unhelpful.
People are still obsessed with the phrase "fake news," despite the fact that it's extraordinarily unhelpful and used to describe a number of things that are actually very different: lies, rumors, hoaxes, conspiracies, propaganda.
Especially during the first part it is an elaborate crime picture, that uses the SF premise to tell an unusual crime story in which the forced detective tries to solve a mystery with the obstacle of vanishing characters and unhelpful witnesses who don't have to lie to be unhelpful.
The following day the two Detectives visit Andrews but he is unhelpful and evasive and seems to be hiding something.
To compare any film to its paper bound inspiration is unhelpful and unfair.
Long on unhelpful (and not per the original) back story and too short on actual story, the film failed to capture all of the wonder and "strange"ness of the original comic book series.
While it is understandable that some have viewed the northern powerhouse strategy as a platform for emphasizing their own superiority, this is unhelpful, not least because it causes some decision-makers in the central government to doubt the project’s relevance.
To speak of Sarkozy as a substitute for Tony Blair in Europe would be premature – and unhelpful, given Blair’s inability to exert significant influence on US policy.
But, given the Iranian government’s increasingly unhelpful reactions to diplomatic overtures, there is unlikely to be any interest in toning down sanctions.
This led to unhelpful headlines such as “Bill Clinton: Hillary Is ‘Not Out of Touch.’”
But in other ways Russia has been unhelpful – using energy resources as a political weapon, for example, and in their resistance to positive political changes in neighboring countries.
To try to enforce a single definitive interpretation is deeply misleading, and thus unhelpful – and potentially dangerous – in policymaking.
In fact, it is profoundly unhelpful to stoke fears about robots, and to frame the issue as “artificial intelligence taking American jobs.”
If the dollar retreats in 2016, however, the basket peg implies a stronger renminbi-dollar rate, which might be unhelpful.
Fully general frameworks, such as economists’ beloved Arrow-Debreu model of general equilibrium, are so broad and encompassing that they are totally unhelpful for real-world explanation or prediction.
Goodwill isn’t enough to stop climate change, and history is littered with well-meaning policies that turned out to be unhelpful, or even worse than the problems they were meant to address.
The North Koreans are erratic, unpleasant, irresponsible, and unhelpful.
Another group of unhelpful Western critics regards North Korea as proof that even paranoids have enemies, and that it is the West’s responsibility to overcome the North’s presumption of a hostile policy against it.
Unfortunately, despite the efforts of NATO and the EU, Europe’s defense sector remains fragmented, which leads to duplication, unhelpful competition from too many rival systems, and, significant capability gaps or incompatibilities.
Only days later, when the threat passed and I was finally able to leave the area, did I realize how unhelpful the available information about the roads and alternative routes out that I had been using really was.
In all this, the West played an unhelpful role.
But, when women are courageous enough to report abuse, doctors are often unhelpful, police are hostile, and the justice system fails them.
The BDS movement has met significant resistance in many parts of the world, owing to the belief that its tactics are unnecessary and unhelpful.
It is, of course, in times of economic downturn that countries worry most about their credit rating, so the IMF stance is particularly unhelpful.
In a context in which the ECB is seeking to “do whatever it takes" to vanquish deflation, this is an unhelpful complication.
That last sentence points out that our moral-philosophical discussion of who deserves what has become entangled with the economics of the marginal productivity theory of income distribution in a fundamentally unhelpful way.
In this sense, the recent G-20 injunction that advanced-country central banks “carefully calibrate and clearly communicate” monetary-policy changes is unhelpful.
It is true, but unhelpful, to say that governments have only themselves to blame for having recklessly rushed into this wild ride.
From my own long experience of negotiation, I know that talk of winners and losers is not just unhelpful, but misleading.
Possibly the biggest obstacle to more effective treatment is that the diagnostic category "major depression" is so heterogeneous as to be outright unhelpful when trying to decide on a therapeutic plan for an individual patient.