Usage examples (35)

• Equally self-indulgent and counterproductive is pouting on the left.
• How any thinking person can argue that our foreign policy over the past several years has not been counterproductive is beyond me.
• How does one measure progress in what should be more accurately described as a counterproductive and now unnecessary war?
• I can, however, think of at least one way in which this sort of practice might be counterproductive from the police’s own perspective.