unhelpfully

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.