unhelpfully

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ helpful +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unhelpfully (comparative more unhelpfully, superlative most unhelpfully)

  1. In an unhelpful manner.
    Antonym: helpfully
    • 2016, TF Torrance, The Trinitarian faith: The evangelical theology of the ancient Catholic Church:
      Evangelical figures and groups who 'converted' to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy, in search of a return to the sources and to some 'Golden Era' of church history – here he specifically mentions Thomas Howard and Peter Gilquist, or those who uncritically and thus unhelpfully appropriated aspects of patristic theology, such as the Emerging Church and paleoorthodoxy.