unhelpfully

How To Use unhelpfully In A Sentence

• He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it seesaws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen.
• The Minnesota Statute providing for vacancies in Senate seats unhelpfully defines ‘vacancy’ to mean ‘vacancy.’
• Yet the notion of the thrusting career woman, starkly contrasted to the selfless home-maker, lurks unhelpfully in the background.
• When he unhelpfully insisted on surviving, the multi-talented Borgias produced brother Cesare to strangle him in his sickbed.
• It is, as a friend unhelpfully told me when I was about to direct it, ‘so good not even a director could mess it up’.
• `There aren't any doors that small in Fiddleford,' he said unhelpfully. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
• The fee has brought its own pressure to bear on a quiet young man already - perhaps unhelpfully - described as a superstar by his international manager.
• Every time I backed the car off the drive, for instance, it became unhelpfully scared of the camber in the road.
• `I don't know," Iris wobbled unhelpfully, and, returning to basics, asked plaintively again, `Where am I? TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
• This week is full up with appointments and social engagements, I'm sure of it, but I can hardly remember any specifics, my diary unhelpfully empty.