How to Use unhelpful in a Sentence

unhelpful

adjective
  • Some of them were quite unhelpful!
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That's where the unhelpful comments tend to come in.
    — Time, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The app is full of all sorts of other unhelpful features too.
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 27 July 2024
  • Your brain can spin these unhelpful, mean stories for all kinds of reasons.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 28 Jan. 2025
  • These unhelpful thoughts may have served us in the past, but are no longer productive.
    — Melody Wilding, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • This language is unhelpful and wrong.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Since the user won’t get prompts like that in real life, your results will be unhelpful.
    — Kevin Philpott, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The unhelpful strike zone of home plate umpire Alan Porter didn’t help.
    — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
  • Some cling to the notion that stimulus is unhelpful, risky and hard.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Response to our emails was unhelpful and with several days’ lag time.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Don't let an unhelpful pattern entrap you -- take this moment to break free!
    — Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Such stories, often not true, can be unhelpful.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • The latest comments may be his most impolitic and unhelpful, though.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In part because of some unhelpful stereotypes.
    — Harvard Business Review, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There are also people who may find all the data unhelpful or even stressful.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 26 July 2024
  • Nobody tells you how unhelpful people can be, or how unfriendly the world can seem.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • If the edit is deemed wrong or unhelpful, the would-be editors lose their token.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Release unhelpful thoughts and focus on those aligned with your values, vision and goals.
    — Gamini Hewawasam, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • In this context, the punch serves as a means for controlling unhelpful partners.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The well-meaning but unhelpful gay therapist my parents sent me to.
    — Laine Yuhas, Wired, 4 June 2021
  • At first, Matty seems just as passive and unhelpful during this week’s case.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Over the years, I have been given a lot of unhelpful, biased, and flat-out wrong feedback.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • That way, the agent isn’t returning unhelpful results, like a pair of shoes the consumer loves but are out of stock.
    — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 16 May 2025
  • Hopefully, Jack, like his mom, has learned to tune out the unhelpful chatter.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2023
  • If unhelpful naysayers shove their preferences onto you, just brush them off.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This practice is both lazy and unhelpful, especially when the questions are reused from year to year.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
  • For many of those facing charges, a background in government service has proven to be unhelpful.
    — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2021

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