Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not beneficial; not advantageous, useful, profitable, or helpful.

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Examples

  • Independent Kuwaiti analyst Amer al-Tamimi described the closure as "unbeneficial" and said it "contradicts the principles of free market."

    - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community 2008

  • "We see NATO military intervention in another country as extremely unbeneficial," he said.

    Arabs Love the Pax Americana 2011

  • Graham fails to mention the millions of dollars wasted in hospitals due to negligence or totaly lack of desire to rein in costs, unnecessary, unbeneficial tests, and having a free rein for far too many years.

    Graham: Dems engaging in 'seedy Chicago politics' 2009

  • Inbreeding has always proven to be very unbeneficial to the survival of the species.

    Let's Talk Junk (Again). - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • I regret that I have been seduced by unbeneficial and decadent thought.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • I regret that I have been seduced by unbeneficial and decadent thought.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • I regret that I have been seduced by unbeneficial and decadent thought.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • I regret that I have been seduced by unbeneficial and decadent thought.

    A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001

  • That is one way, a very good way, to address anxiety, because people will think as they see a more prosperous future for themselves that they can pass on to their kids, that these changes taking place in the economy are not unbeneficial changes, that there are things that are going to improve their quality of life and help their children in the future.

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996

  • The iron road was to come, and come it did, all conquering and, not so unbeneficial, after all, in its rule.

    The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway

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