adverb
- in a way that does not provide assistance or useful information
Examples
- The customer service representative responded unhelpfully to my complaint.
- She unhelpfully suggested I figure it out myself.
- The map was unhelpfully vague about the exact location.
- He unhelpfully interrupted the meeting with irrelevant comments.
- The instructions were unhelpfully written in technical jargon.
- The witness unhelpfully claimed not to remember anything.