How to Use unhelpful in a Sentence

unhelpful

adjective

• These unhelpful thoughts may have served us in the past, but are no longer productive.
  — Melody Wilding, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• But even those have a heightened level of drama that is unhelpful.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The well-meaning but unhelpful gay therapist my parents sent me to.
  — Laine Yuhas, Wired, 4 June 2021
• And some of the studies that have been done offer conflicting or unhelpful results.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
• For many of those facing charges, a background in government service has proven to be unhelpful.
  — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2021
• There is a clear difference between the type of pain that brings growth and the type of suffering that is unnecessary and unhelpful.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2021
• The same goes for unhelpful thoughts, patterns and behaviors that can set off your anxiety like a runaway train.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• Attorneys not involved in the case said the lawsuit could end up being unhelpful for Gutierrez.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• China would see that as very unhelpful and a move toward breaking with the One China policy.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2021
• Ours is a culture with no shortage of opinions about birthing bodies—many of them unhelpful and isolating.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2023
• If nothing else, the negative news this generates for Trump is unhelpful, and no politician would want it.
  — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2022
• Telling the truth in the middle of a war is unpopular. Unpopular and unhelpful.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• The friend's reaction and feedback can be good and helpful or negative and unhelpful.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 14 Dec. 2020
• One piece of context: We are sometimes stuck in an unhelpful doom loop about digital and social media apps.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• At the beginning of the episode, Bruce is being generally unhelpful to the investigation, which can be seen in a clip.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2022
• Sometimes brands will just put a drop of pigment on a white background and that's very unhelpful because there's no context to lighting conditions.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 22 May 2022
• Is the horse-race analysis on if a vaccine will be ready, for example by election day, by the president and others, unhelpful?
  — Drew Armstrong, Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• The number one risk factor is having had preeclampsia before, which is entirely unhelpful to any first-time mom.
  — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Disappointment will only ride, sulking and unhelpful, in the back seat.
  — Michelle Obama, Time, 15 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024