unsupportive

adjective un·sup·port·ive \ ˌən-sə-ˈpȯr-tiv \

Updated on: 17 May 2018

Definition of unsupportive

: not providing support : not supportive

But any personal gain I may have realized as a result of this environment is tempered by a public attitude toward teaching that is not only unsupportive but at times antagonistic.
—Howard Karlitz

They were unsupportive of her decision.

Recent Examples of unsupportive from the Web

Discretion is, of course, still needed in unsupportive workplaces, and there remain too many of those.

— theresa vargas, Washington Post, "For Mother’s Day, a remembrance of my almost daughter.," 11 May 2018
The next morning, Trump sent a rather unsupportive tweet, after a Fox News commentator urged him to reconsider.

— callum borchers, Washington Post, "Why Trump needed to condemn domestic violence in his own words," 14 Feb. 2018
But continuing to attack Americans for expressing one of the privileges that comes with citizenship could continue to hurt him with demographics that have long been unsupportive of his politics.

— eugene scott, Washington Post, "Protests edge into other sports as NFL looks at tamping them," 11 Oct. 2017
Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, over the weekend declared all-out political war on the GOP establishment, including McConnell and incumbent Republican senators Bannon has deemed unsupportive of the president’s agenda.

— Washington Post, "Trump, McConnell make a show of unity, despite tensions," 17 Oct. 2017
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy’s best friend Xander is possessive, unsupportive, and judgmental of her.

— jill gutowitz, Glamour, "Why Jon Snow Is the Ultimate Male Feminist," 27 Sep. 2017
The other Housewives are unsupportive of your relationship.

— maria carter, Woman's Day, "'Real Housewives of New York' Star Luann D'Agostino Reveals What She's Really Like Off-Camera," 11 May 2017
Colonial governments were predictably unsupportive of the whole undertaking.

— amanda petrusich, The New Yorker, "The Magnificent Cross-Cultural Recordings of Kenya’s Kipsigis Tribe," 16 Feb. 2017

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