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the counterproductive
adjective
More of a hindrance than a help.
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The counterproductive effect is exceedingly retro.
Most important, it would lower the counterproductive obstacles to filing for bankruptcy.
Imagine them easing the counterproductive budget and banking rules that have suffocated southern Europe.
Mr. Nass said that the counterproductive effects can linger after the ride.
Mondondo's view however ignores the counterproductive effects that the legal approach has for his cause.
The study highlighted the counterproductive promotion of EVs when the electric consumed is produced from oil and coal.
By nature they do not entail the counterproductive relationship that exists between for-profit hospitals and for-profit insurance companies.
However, such are the counterproductive effects of "Constant Star" that the promise of enlightenment and uplift sours all too soon.
The article centers on the counterproductive role of subsidized flood insurance and the 1988 Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
Citing Britain's long colonial history, they said their troops understood better than American forces the counterproductive results of aggressive tactics against indigenous people.
learned from some of the counterproductive, costly policies that were pursued in Egypt," said Rachel Ziemba, an economist at Roubini Global Economics in London.
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