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as in harmful
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as in impractical
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as in impolite
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Recent Examples of unhelpful
There are also the unhelpful phone calls from her husband, telling her to enjoy the spoils of the crummy motel she’s forced to reside in due to said hole.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Hannah Brown was a prominent purveyor of anti-Karen content, setting most of her sketches in restaurants with unreasonable customers and unhelpful management.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
This language is unhelpful and wrong.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Halpern is also sensitive to the fact that some medical trainees endure a level of vicarious emotional experience that is overwhelming to the students and unhelpful to patients.
—Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Hannah Brown was a prominent purveyor of anti-Karen content, setting most of her sketches in restaurants with unreasonable customers and unhelpful management.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
This language is unhelpful and wrong.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Halpern is also sensitive to the fact that some medical trainees endure a level of vicarious emotional experience that is overwhelming to the students and unhelpful to patients.
—Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhelpful
Adjective
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Specialty cleaners made for glass cooktops don’t contain harmful ingredients like ammonia.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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Small settings changes can make a big difference in reducing exposure to harmful or suggestive content.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Critics lambasted those policies as impractical at best, reckless at worst.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Countach is also famously impractical and a pain to drive, so the next buyer will likely be taking on a more-than-usual stewardship role in terms of old supercars, the service not being to themselves but to the wider community, which gets to look at the Countach rather than operate it.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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My answer to this very impolite shift in the season has been to give myself—and my evenings—a bit of a reset.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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European allies have expressed dismay, even impolite horror, at Witkoff’s failure to grasp or recall key details of his discussions with the Kremlin.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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With 27% favorable and 16% unfavorable opinions among Republicans, more than half of them don't know enough to form an opinion.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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The pressure dialed up by Minnesota, along with costly penalties, put this offense in unfavorable spots throughout the game.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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At 5-nanometre or smaller nodes (current cutting-edge chips), a tiny 30-nanometre particle (about 1/3,000th the width of a hair) can ruin a circuit and make the chip unusable.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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That said, while each companion’s abilities bring something to the table, they get downed by enemies a lot, which renders their abilities unusable until they can be revived.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Not having matches in a waterproof container was another thoughtless mistake.—
Bill Shaber,
Outdoor Life,
22 Oct. 2025
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Buying things is becoming as thoughtless as sending a text.—
Patrick van Esch,
The Conversation,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Seven lawsuits filed this week in California allege that ordinary users seeking school help, spiritual reassurance, or simple conversation were instead drawn into psychologically damaging exchanges that ultimately preceded several suicides.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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Vietnam is preparing for damaging winds, flooding, heavy rain and storm surges in its central provinces including Danang, Quang Ngai and Dak Lak.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Pattinson plays the character’s increasingly useless husband.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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My French was useless—I was also considered a tourist by association.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Unhelpful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhelpful. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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