Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unhelpful manner; without giving aid.
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- adverb In an
unhelpful manner.
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- adverb in an unhelpful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the term unhelpfully lumps together hardworking manufacturers (Vietnam, say) and service-based economies (Dubai) with those blessed-or perhaps cursed-by natural resources (Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Russia).
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And the term unhelpfully lumps together hardworking manufacturers (Vietnam, say) and service-based economies (Dubai) with those blessed-or perhaps cursed-by natural resources (Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Russia).
Edward Lucas 2010
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The model is asked to turn around, and MK gasps at the back of the outfit, Bertzilla unhelpfully adding, "she's got camelbutt too."
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway, Episode 5, "Off the Track" Holly Cara Price 2011
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By glossing over such crucial distinctions just as its transatlantic cousin, the World Bank, tends to, and referring only to "the private sector" in the abstract, the paper unhelpfully perpetuates the foggy notion that the needs and interests of the two parties are somehow exactly the same.
Is DfID offering effective support for industrialisation in developing nations? 2011
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The model is asked to turn around, and MK gasps at the back of the outfit, Bertzilla unhelpfully adding, "she's got camelbutt too."
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway, Episode 5, "Off the Track" Holly Cara Price 2011
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The model is asked to turn around, and MK gasps at the back of the outfit, Bertzilla unhelpfully adding, "she's got camelbutt too."
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway, Episode 5, "Off the Track" Holly Cara Price 2011
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Someone recently posted an enquiry about British women sf novelists from before 1970, and I responded rather unhelpfully that Sylvia Anderson probably deserved more writing credits for Thunderbirds than she actually got (ie, co-author of the first episode, "Trapped in the Sky").
British women writers of TV sf before 1970 nwhyte 2010
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The model is asked to turn around, and MK gasps at the back of the outfit, Bertzilla unhelpfully adding, "she's got camelbutt too."
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway, Episode 5, "Off the Track" Holly Cara Price 2011
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Respondents, of whom about a quarter were gay men, blamed the media and celebrities for unhelpfully reinforcing unrealistic ideals of physical perfection.
Body image concerns more men than women, research finds 2012
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The model is asked to turn around, and MK gasps at the back of the outfit, Bertzilla unhelpfully adding, "she's got camelbutt too."
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway, Episode 5, "Off the Track" Holly Cara Price 2011
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