Definition of "unhelpfully" []

• In an unhelpful manner. (adverb)

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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)."
• "Respondents, of whom about a quarter were gay men, blamed the media and celebrities for unhelpfully reinforcing unrealistic ideals of physical perfection."
• "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")."