Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to hinder rather than serve one's purpose.
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- adjective More of a
hindrance than ahelp .
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- adjective tending to hinder the achievement of a goal
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Examples
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I want to talk about beneficial outcomes and engagement, because I believe that these sort of "pay for hashtag" promotions are pointless and actually counterproductive from the perspective of the charity itself.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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Equally self-indulgent and counterproductive is pouting on the left.
Paula Gordon: a Land of Nuts and Money Paula Gordon 2010
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I want to talk about beneficial outcomes and engagement, because I believe that these sort of "pay for hashtag" promotions are pointless and actually counterproductive from the perspective of the charity itself.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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I want to talk about beneficial outcomes and engagement, because I believe that these sort of "pay for hashtag" promotions are pointless and actually counterproductive from the perspective of the charity itself.
Dave Taylor: Why #beatcancer Doesn't Help Fight Cancer Dave Taylor 2010
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NPR's commitment to a contrived form of journalistic objectivity may be counterproductive from the point of view of informing its audience, but there's no question that even prior to this incident Williams 'appearances on FOX went against NPR's code of ethics, which advises employees to "not express views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist."
Conservatives declare war on NPR Adam Serwer 2010
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How any thinking person can argue that our foreign policy over the past several years has not been counterproductive is beyond me.
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There are legitimate reasons for preferring Hillary to Obama or any other candidate, though now that Obama's is almost certain to win, continuing to promote Hillary over him is a bit counterproductive from the Democratic perspective.
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Indeed there has been a disturbing, unnecessary and in the long-term counterproductive degree of thinly veiled anti-Americanism in Brazilian foreign policy under Lula.
openDemocracy Leslie Bethell 2010
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There was nothing particularly newsworthy about Springer's quote he called the rift "counterproductive" - sure, if you're an ally of the BIAW, it's counterproductive but Haugen brazenly claimed she prefers one side over the other.
Haugen claims she's not friends with the BIAW, but evidence shows otherwise 2009
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One senior administration official said he was not in favor of cross-border operations - which he said have been generally "counterproductive" - unless they were directed against top leaders of
NYT > Home Page By MARK MAZZETTI 2010
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