unhelpfully

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.