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  1. List of paraphrases for "unhelpful":

    useless, pointless, futile, unnecessary, sterile

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#10226useless
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  1. Kellyanne Conway:

    I find it petty and partisan and completely unhelpful to the American population to have a former vice president, who was here for eight years, in his bunker in Wilmington just lobbing criticisms, reading from prepared notes and not that well.

  2. Jeffrey Evans:

    The City of London is the leading international financial center in the world, it is the most cosmopolitan major business city in the world and ... a step backwards from an international position, which I think many would see this as, is unwelcome and unhelpful.

  3. Elissa Slotkin:

    None of us is ever going to get in a Twitter war with anyone else, if we have a concern with someone, we're going to go right up and talk to Chrissy Houlahan about it and we're not going to add unhelpful rhetoric to an already bad tone coming out of Washington.

  4. The Lancet:

    Some of the material that's been put out - on preprint servers for example - clearly has been... unhelpful, whether it's fake news or misinformation or rumour-mongering, it's certainly contributed to fear and panic.

  5. Gregory Poling:

    It lets The US very clearly call out China's activities as illegal, not just destabilizing or unhelpful, but to say this is illegal, that helps partners like Vietnam and the Philippines, and it's going to put pressure on other countries -- the Europeans, for instance -- to get off the fence and say something themselves.

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