In other cases, it seems to be doing something quite unhelpful, at least, in a modern context.
Sometimes the adult may say something totally unhelpful, and not do anything at all.
Negative thought patterns that repeatedly tell you can't do something are unhelpful and they're roadblocks.
He does not know what effects the new law will have, given it was so heavily amended: "I hope that in the rush at the end they [the legislators] didn't mix it all up and create something which is unhelpful to everybody".
(We can ignore the unhelpful 'Something exists' which is allowed by standard first order logic purely for convenience as few would need to apply logic to discourse about an empty universe for which in any case there are separate rules for determining validity or otherwise).
And it is something that's obviously unhelpful".
"Then it became something I found mostly unhelpful because I thought the images were based more on personality than on design content.
"The reality is we cannot be detained by something that takes us in an unhelpful political direction".
The problem with even using the term, he said, is that it's a supremely unhelpful way of saying something very basic and ordinary: you're stuck.
