counter-productive

Freddie was the hangover often literally of the ways Flower defined as counter-productive.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

One of the discussions in the postmortem was the reflection on how ‘democracy’ as conceived by Bush and the neocon gang was both flimsily conceived and counter-productive.

Matthew Yglesias » A Friend in Need 2009

Scapegoating and stoking fear among workers over the permitting process is counter-productive.

Jeff Biggers: Big Coal's Call to Arms? Should Feds Stop West Virginia Rally from Triggering the Next Arizona? Jeff Biggers 2011

In the meantime, any speculation of the contents of the indictment would be counter-productive as the pre-trial judge may not agree with me.

Lebanon Tribunal Prosecutor Speaks on Indictments 2011

In light of the previous comment: "When does self-promotion become counter-productive spamming, and how creatively would you describe the foolishness of those who employ such strategies?"

SF Signal is Looking for Mind Meld Topics - What Do You Want To See? 2009

In the policy environment from Kemp-Roth to the latest tax-cut madness out of the minority party in Congress, for a liberal to toss this sentence out there is irresponsible and counter-productive at best. ron Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Christina Romer on ARRA 2009

The country needs to know what happened, who ordered it and why, but criminal prosecution seems divisive, and probably counter-productive. mpowell Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Justice for War Criminals? 2009

I may be reinventing Kuhn or Gramsci, and some of my ideas have been reenforced in recent reading about how the Dominicans cleaned up after the Albigensian Crusades, but I think it is likely counter-productive to try confront or refute a hegemony with facts, reason, or argument.

Matthew Yglesias » System-Building 2010

The marginal health care dollar does not give you much return, which is why our obscenely higher levels of spending do not translate into better outcomes (that also has something to do counter-productive treatment, a symptom of defensive medicine and misaligned incentives that encourage too much care, much of which can do more harm than good and is simply money thrown into a hole).

Matthew Yglesias » The Costs of Inaction 2009

In particular, the policy of most publishers to keep authors far, far away from the cover art, and certainly with no imput on it, is increasingly counter-productive.

[Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen 2010