Adjective : Your comments were very helpful. From Dictionary.com.
Her neighbour was now shaking her head unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
"The canteen's signposted," he told her unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Consultant Care]
Faulkner, on the other hand, was unhelpfully obscure. From Wordnik.com. [Faulkner v. Hemingway] Reference
The Lib Dems will, unhelpfully, vote against the bill. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
"Negative information," the computer replied unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)] Reference
"If you cannot, then no one can, " it replied unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Running From The Deity]
As unhelpfully as perhaps possible, Descartes uses the term. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Theory of Ideas] Reference
That inject more race into this debate, I think unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009] Reference
“If you cannot, then no one can,” it replied unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Running from the Deity]
There was an area on the map labeled unhelpfully THE FARTHINGS. From Wordnik.com. [Farthing] Reference
"Quite a crowd," remarked Old Johan unhelpfully as they departed. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ten Worlds]
"Maybe you have the push-button soap," Ross commented unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Derelict]
"I would have said, 'seductive nature,'" Keman put in, unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
“Ali will find us,” Mahmoud answered unhelpfully, and strode on. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
"A chingana is where you go for a chingada," Ardiles said unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
"A chingana is where you go for a chingada, " Ardiles said unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
"I guess you'll just have to try it to find out," Edsel said unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Xone of Contention]
Her husband, unhelpfully, suggested that if she loses both, she's through. From Wordnik.com. [The Kitchen Sink] Reference
"Yup," Roy agreed unhelpfully, retrieving salt and pepper pots from a cupboard. From Wordnik.com. [Disordered Minds]
'So he could,' agreed Hugh unhelpfully, 'but there's no man so far claims he did. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
There are two schools of thought and, unhelpfully, they are diametrically opposed. From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Drawing Board] Reference
My sisters and several of my friends in the UK are, quite unhelpfully, vegetarians. From Wordnik.com. [lost weekend] Reference
The under-the-radar base negotiations with Colombia unhelpfully play into that hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Isacson: Tensions Flare in South America Over U.S. Troops in Colombia] Reference
"I've never seen you happier than over the past seven months," a friend tells me, unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [A new mum again ... at 48!] Reference
Under close questioning by McLean, Sayre began to shift his recollection slightly but still unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Hiss Case: An Exchange] Reference
It's precisely what is encoded in the existence of 'faith schools 'as they are now so unhelpfully called. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop's Holy Week Lecture: Faith & Politics] Reference
The shuttered windows stared blindly and unhelpfully back, reflecting the glare almost as far as my cover. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Sports]
Anderson, noting that Joseph's father unhelpfully sobbed like a baby at a moment of crisis and need, says. From Wordnik.com. [An excerpt ripped bodily and without context from Chapter 31] Reference
"I understand that the brush thins out quite a lot once you get inside," explained Trapspringer unhelpfully. From Wordnik.com. [Kendermore]
It is unhelpfully emotive to class shadow cabinet members as winners/losers before they get to their departments. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Or, rather, the villain of the piece is what Mr. Ahamed inexactly and unhelpfully describes as "the gold standard.". From Wordnik.com. [How Bullion Lost Its Luster] Reference
And yet in an article unhelpfully titled, "Climate Consensus 'Busted'?" the NYT's Andy Revkin amazingly writes of it. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Romm: Inhofe Recycles Unscientific Attacks on Global Warming, NYT's Revkin Gives Him a Pass] Reference
Jim unhelpfully kept his eyes fixed faithfully down on his instruction manual, as I'd told him, and went on steadfastly reading. From Wordnik.com. [Shattered]
But in real confrontations, relativism unhelpfully discourages the evaluation of another outlook that is a genuine option for us. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Relativism] Reference
To date, there seems to have been an unhelpfully dismissive attitude almost contemptuous in at one case by Assembly Government Ministers. From Wordnik.com. [Tories making the best of it.] Reference
Leonard Koren helpfully, or unhelpfully, explains how wabi denotes the kind of perfect beauty achieved by the right kind of imperfection. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
This followed disagreement over the treaty's preamble, which is nonbinding but unhelpfully re-links nuclear weapons and missile defenses. From Wordnik.com. [New Start's Old Illusions] Reference
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