Synonyms for counter-productive
counter-pro·duc·tive

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1. List of paraphrases for "counter-productive":

   counterproductive, self-defeating, unproductive

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1. Ral Grijalva:

   The pay-go thing is an absurd idea now given the times and given what’s already been done to curry favor with corporate America, it’s a stupid rule. It is entirely counter-productive to progressive policy goals.

2. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

   We are against revising these agreements, we consider it very counter productive to try to reduce to zero years of international work carried out via talks between the six major powers and Iran, we will obstruct attempts to sabotage these agreements which were enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   Collective goals ... are rendered meaningless, even counter-productive as soon as one nation fails to comply.

4. Vladimir Putin:

   We consider counter-productive any attempts to destroy WTO or to lower its role.

5. Nick Littlehales:

   The phone I'm talking to you on now was simply a mobile phone when I was walking around Manchester United football club in 1998 -- it is now used for so many different things, they have a counter-productive effect on a very natural process called our circadian rhythms, which has so many biological consequences in our bodies.