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unhelpfully
adverb
uk /ˌʌnˈhelp.fəl.i/ us /ˌʌnˈhelp.fəl.i/
in a way that does not help:
Rather unhelpfully, the chapters are not clearly identified on the contents page.
This data unhelpfully groups together millions of elderly people.
Unhelpfully, especially for a long book like this, there is no index.
"Who is it?" she asked. "No idea," he said unhelpfully.
The shop assistant unhelpfully informed me that she had already closed the till.
The delivery company said, unhelpfully, that it could not give me a specific time for the delivery.
The other passengers unhelpfully stood by the door at the front of the bus.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unhelpful and Uncooperative
awkward
awkwardly
awkwardness
balky
deterrent
non-constructive
non-cooperation
non-cooperative
obstructionism
obstructionist
passive-aggressive
pre-emptive
stiflingly
stultifying
stultifyingly
uncooperatively
uncooperativeness
under your feetidiom
unforthcoming
unhelpful
Opposite
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